Maintenance of the storage system is a daily job for system administrators. Linux provides users with a wealth of storage capabilities, and powerful built-in maintenance tools. However, these tools ...

When the company I work for, a civil engineering and surveying firm, decided to move all its AutoCad drawings onto a central fileserver, we were presented with a backup situation orders of magnitude ...

Ubuntu 26.10 plans to strip ZFS, Btrfs, LVM, and LUKS encryption from the signed GRUB bootloader to improve security.

Logical Volume Manager (LVM) helps you manage your storage better by introducing a layer of abstraction over your storage hardware. When you’re freed from hardware limitations you can use more than ...

I would like to bring up LVM extent size and parted vs LVM. First off I would like more clarification on parted I understand that it is meant to handle disk 2TB and larger. However, with that said why ...

I'm trying to set up a system using LVMcache. The system has three hard drives, 2x 3TB and one 240gb SSD. The only "fancy" partitioning I've done is on the SSD, which has 3 partitions: Code: Device ...

LVM (currently released as LVM2), the “logical volume manager”, is a flexible storage manager for the Linux kernel. It allows you to add, remove and resize partitions to suit your needs. Instead of ...

Logical volumes are an alternate method of partitioning hard drive space. The capability has been built into the Linux kernel since 1999, contributed by Sistina Software. The Logical Volume Manager is ...