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Extending an LVM volume on a VMWare host

Posted 08-23-2012 at 12:17 PM by sag47
Updated 03-25-2013 at 08:28 AM by sag47
Tags lvm, snapshot
Back story
This is going to be a short blog post. Mostly with commands. Basically I run a media server for online courses/lectures called Echo360 ESS. At some point the LVM volume which holds the lecture captures nearly filled up. I was getting Icinga alerts on it and by looking at the rate of data generation in munin showed me I had better hop to it. So that's what this post is about.

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Add disk to VM

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Removing files with find, and LVM snapshots

Posted 04-24-2012 at 11:21 AM by sag47
Tags find, lvm, snapshot
Take an LVM snapshot using a loopback device
Create the snapshot
Take a look at the devices in your volume group. First there needs to be sufficient space in the volume group for a snapshot to occur. Check this by typing: vgdisplay and checking for Free PE / Size
Code:
vgdisplay -v
Create a loopback device to use for the snapshot. My volume group is named vg_echo360. I want my snapshot to be 9.9GB in size so I'm creating a loopback device which is 10GB in size....
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