I was having trouble today getting Linux to see my new partition space that I added in vSphere without rebooting the host. The new disk space was made visible by re-scanning the SCSI bus (below) and then the new partition was made visible by using…
Category: LVM
I found a great little utility that can enumerate through all the block devices, including your lvm, crypt, etc.
When shrinking your LVM volumes, it is important to do it safely. I will show you how I like to do that here.
I recently had a misfortune, in that somehow my volume group meta-data got corrupted, and LVM would not enable the volume group. Essentially, I lost my LVM volume disk. This happened after I resized a volume, and had done a file system check before and…