Questions tagged [lvm]
LVM is a logical volume manager for the Linux kernel
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Where is my /dev/dm-2 2 GB swap partition?
On a brand new Ubuntu 22.04.2 installation, swapon --show shows I have a 2 GB swap partition:
$ swapon --show
NAME TYPE SIZE USED PRIO
/dev/dm-2 partition 1.9G 0B -2
Neither df -h, nor ...
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Can't boot into ubuuntu after adding PV to LVM [closed]
I've been running Ubuntu (Elementary OS 6.1) an intel NUC for a few months, everything has been fine. It installed with LVM, and a few weeks ago, I added a new internal SSD as a PV to my existing root ...
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How to mount an LVM formatted hard drive connected through a USB adapter?
What would be the standard directory to create for an external hard LVM hard drive?
nicholas@mordor:~$
nicholas@mordor:~$ ls /dev/mapper
control vgubuntu-root vgubuntu-swap_1
nicholas@mordor:~$
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Partition disk when installing ubuntu using LVM
I am trying to partition my disk when installing my ubuntu image:
What am trying to achieve is:
Set up 3 main partitions / , /var and /home
encrypt all 3 paritions using LVM encryption module ...
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Failure to install Ubuntu
I try to install ubuntu22.04.02 lts in my laptop asus x540u models, at first time all things are working good only in steps 5 when i chose to erase the disk with LVM, so it contine to loading without ...
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Not all logical volumes appears during installation of Ubuntu Server 20.04.6 and 22.04.2
I'm trying to install Ubuntu Server 22.04.2 from the live USB stick.
I have 3 existing volume groups (LVM).
Some of the partitions has been created with Ubuntu 18.04 (and probably ealier versions too)....
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grub fails finding root LV after lvrename : error: failed to get canonical path of `/dev/mapper/VG_ALL-LV_Ubuntu_root'
grub-probe fails finding root LV after a lvrename operation :
$ df -h /
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VG_ALL-LV_Ubuntu_root 7.3G 19M 6.9G 1% /
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Re-install ubuntu 22.04 on encrypted LVM partitions
I have an existing installation (Debian) using encrypted LVM partitions. I would like to re-use the same partitions to install Ubuntu (more precisely, format the / partition with the new system but ...
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Partionning with preseed
I used to find my solutions on old post here but today I have to write for help as I don't find any usefull answer anywhere. I'm sure you'll rock and help me with this problem I have for quite a while ...
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ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv and vgdisplay give different sizes for different commands
Even though the disk size is 221.57 GiB and there is no unallocated disk space and /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv gives only 98G where did the rest go?
output of:
fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: ...
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extending an exsiting lvm
hello im trying to extend an exsistant lvm /omics/tools to have more space right now it only have a maximum of 5t i want to increase it by 10
df -h shows:
--- Logical volume ---
LV Path ...
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Used P2V to reduce size of LVM VHDX - Issues with grub and booting now
Hi All hoping for some Linux genius advice
I inherited a VMWare VM cluster with a few production VM’s
they were all way over provisioned and all have 1tb Thick drives
But are only using 100gb odd each
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lvresize command doesn't increase size of lvm
This is my output of lsblk:
lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
loop0 7:0 0 63.3M 1 loop /snap/core20/1828
loop1 7:1 0 63.3M 1 loop /snap/core20/1852
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How to increase a partition and lvm
This is my lsblk output:
lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
loop0 7:0 0 63.3M 1 loop /snap/core20/1828
loop1 7:1 0 63.3M 1 loop /snap/core20/1852
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I messed up and made my /boot partition laughably small over 4 years ago. Resizing it will not be straightforward. What can I do?
Ubuntu version is 22.04 LTS Desktop
My boot disk is /dev/sda, and it has three partitions.
Here are the relevant mounts:
~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
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Do I have to extend the partition hosting a LVM VG or could I directly extend the LVM VG to use the free disk space
How to extend this LVM disk to use the extra space of the sda disk:
$ sudo lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
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How to disable GUI for password prompt for encrypted LVM volumes on boot?
How to disable GUI for password prompt for encrypted LVM volumes on boot and how to remove all strings on console output? I just need cleared prompt with blinking cursor.
And yes, I want to confuse ...
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LVM move from two small to two bigger
doc2 and keeping WordPress on it as backup WordPress.
Running out of room on the two 2TB SSD's have on it.
So I put two 4TB SSD's on it all at the same time because want to copy the 4TB LVM, to the ...
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LVM logical volume space used
I am using the lvdisplay command in LVM and am attempting to determine the used size of the logical volume from the following output:
--- Logical volume ---
LV Path /dev/vg1/Web
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22.04 (LVM, encrypted) stopped booting, drop to shell: Error: vgubuntu-root does not exist
I'm running Ubuntu 22.04 with LVM/encryption. This morning, the normal boot sequence stopped working: it does not prompt me for my encryption password, but instead drops to a shell with the following ...
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How to resize and shrink the sole root mount LVM physical volume?
I've selected LVM default option and completed Ubuntu 22.04 installation, but failed to resize and shrink the sole root mount LVM physical volume afterwards.
Method 1:
# mount -t ext4
/dev/mapper/...
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Is there a way to recover data from a drive that was an LVM partition?
I'm a bit new to ubuntu, apologies upfront for gaps in my understanding.
One of our device broke down recently and needed to be RMA.
The device had 2 drives, an internal 30gb drive and a 1 tb ssd. The ...
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How to resize lvm partition so I can give more space to /boot partition [duplicate]
I have tried gparted live, so partitions are not mounted, but I cannot apply any change in main partition (because it's lvm partition I am afraid)
This are the details
Device Boot Start End ...
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System unbootable after upgrade to 22.04
After system upgrade to 22.04 (from 20.04) system is not bootable. It complains that it can't find /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root and defaults to an initramfs shell // BusyBox.
I believe there was an ...
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Installing and creating a configuration for GRUB (Ubuntu 18, RAID1, LVM). Problems
There is my config (VirtualBox):
sda 8:0 0 10G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 512M 0 part /boot/efi
└─sda2 8:2 0 8.5G 0 part
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initramfs shell after upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04 - raid
I upgraded from 20.04 to 22.04 and after reboot I get the following screen / errors (see screenshot) and it goes to the initramfs shell. It's a RAID system. It might be that boot partition was too ...
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How can I increase the size of lvm partition?
I have a ubuntu 18.04 system. I have a total of 3 partitions and in my third partition, I have an LVM partition. I need to increase the size of that partition. Here is the output of lsblk I need to ...
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Extend LVM partition with the parent drive [duplicate]
I want the ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv partition to use the whole sda3 disk. So the / would be 296.1GB.
Any idea how can i do that? Cause i dont know how to do this way.
I have 0 idea what am i doing, i ...
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Use the whole disk instead of a partition as root dir
My problem is that i have a ~300GB hdd (sda3) that i cannot use cause the / is not there.
How can i change that?
I think i installed lvm with the ubuntu server and this caused the problem. So in this ...
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LVM merge destroyed hard drive
I tried to upgrade from Kubuntu 22.04 to 22.10, and borked it.
Accidentally pressed Ctrl-C with the terminal window active.
I think I was able to fix everything, but didn't want to chance it.
I had an ...
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Could not open '/dev/pve/vm-130-disk-0': No such file or directory because of "Unable to resume pve-data-tpool"
We are facing an issue while starting the VM on the proxmox with the below error
kvm: -drive file=/dev/pve/vm-130-disk-0,if=none,id=drive-virtio0,format=raw,cache=none,aio=native,detect-zeroes=on: ...
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Does LVM store information about the volume group configuration in the filesystem (for example /etc)?
I have an ubuntu 22.04 with software raid 5 and a LVM volume group with two logical volumes as "/home" and "/usr/local/src". I want to make a complete reinstall of the operating ...
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Do I need to create a raid with the iDRAC or better with LVM?
We bought a new DELL Server (PE R7525) with AMD EPYC processors and 7 SSDs (a 1.92Tb storage space).
As I am not familiar with it I would like to ask for advice, before trying it the hard way.
Does ...
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sda3_crypt: cryptsetup failed after regular upgrade (ubuntu 22.10)
I'm stuck at boot time after a regular upgrade which seems to have messed up with encryption and/or boot... No key available with this passphrase.
This is not a problem of keyboard or special ...
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Does Ubuntu installation create folders automatically when using mounts on logical volumes to folders that do not exist yet?
I'm currently installing a new Ubuntu 22.04, and I have the following structure:
| Volume Group - VG_SSD |
| Default Logical Volumes we are used to: ...
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Cloning hardidsk of 128GB into a 500 GB is not using the rest free space
I have just cloned my hard disk of 128 GB to a big one of 500GB . I have use commands dd to do it. The partition of ubuntu was done with lvm in the first installation. So when I plug in the new hard ...
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lvm volume group issues w/ ubuntu 22.04
I have triple boot system, bios raid 0, with windows, fedora 33 and ubuntu 20.04. the fedora and ubuntu are on lvms. Everything was working. Then I upgraded the ubuntu install to 22.04. Booting into ...
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Unable to mount to /dev/sda3 (lvm2)
Being an amateur, I tried to mount the /dev/sda3 partition to a mount point after installing the latest LTS of Ubuntu Server
$ sudo mount /dev/sda3 /home/xxxx/bake-buddy
mount: /home/xxxx/bake-buddy: ...
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How to reallocate disk space to get more room?
I have a Ubuntu Server 20.04 running in a virtual machine. It started complaining that there was no enough space on "/" to run software update, so I followed this wonderful advice: Ubuntu ...
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Disable read/write workqueue for Ubuntu Full-Disk-Encryption
I am currently trying to set up multiple devices with Ubuntu (20.04.5 LTS) and the drive must be encrypted, so I used LUKS during the installation. (I checked "Use LVM with the new Ubuntu ...
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How to extend logical volumes on ubuntu server
I want to use all the space in /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root
on typing df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 1,5G 0 1,5G 0% /dev
tmpfs ...
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why is default installation of ubuntu 22.04 lts use half of available storage?
new installation of ubuntu 22.04 always try to use half of the available storage on the disk
how can we change this annoying default behavior, so it can use the full storage on disk?!?
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Manual fsck every day
I have the latest ubuntu distro on a server which I run 24/7. About once a day the server will just appear to be offline, my plex goes down and when I try to SSH in, I just get connection refused.
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Filesystem reports less available disk space than LVM (lvm with luks)
There is this issue that has been bothering me for a while. LVM, lvdisplay, vgdisplay, pvdisplay, lsblk all shows the disk has the assigned 3.64 TB, but the filesystem is reporting it's only 1.5 TB.
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GUI for LVM management on Ubuntu 22.04
I've seen Is there a new GUI for LVM from 5 years ago but none of the answers seem applicable to Ubuntu 22.04.
I've created a 2-disk RAID and put an LVM2 physical volume on top, then created a volume ...
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boot hangs and needs manual 'lvm vgchange -aay'
Related to boot hangs and needs manual 'lvm vgchange -ay' but still present in 22.04:
I have an encrypted boot volume, followed by LVM root.
Every boot, the other LVM volumes get activated ...
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Resize Ubuntu lvm2 pv partition
I'm trying to resize the Ubuntu partition, but gparted or any live Ubuntu disck are not allowing me to do it.
Screenshot
How can I reduce the ubuntu partition to 100GB?
Thank you
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Problems with encrypted and lvm partitioning Ubuntu 22.04
I just installed Ubuntu 22.04 and I have a problem. it did not automatically install cryptsetup and cryptsetup-initramfs packages. That means when I boot it jumps automatically to (initramfs) and it ...
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LVM Resize with Correct Command Fails
I am on an Ubuntu 20.04 VPS server.
I have a volume group called ubuntu-vg within this volume group I have a lvm partition called /home. I need to shrink it and allocate space elsewhere, so first I ...
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Is it typical to have write speed halved by RAID0 (with lvm2), and what can I do about it?
Since I configured two SATA SSDs as a RAID0 with lvm2, Disks (gnome-disk-utility) reports in its benchmark that their reading speed is around doubled, but their writing speed is halved. Screenshots ...
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