Tag Archives: LVM

Adventures in I/O Hell

Posted on 2013-11-24 by Jethro Carr

Earlier this year I had a disk fail in my NZ-based file & VM server. This isn’t something unexpected, the server has 12x hard disks, which are over 2 years old, some failures are to be expected over time. I … Continue reading →

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Restoring LVM volumes

Posted on 2013-11-23 by Jethro Carr

LVM is a fantastic technology that allows block devices on Linux to be sliced into volumes(partitions) and allows for easy resizing and changing of the volumes whilst running, in a much easier fashion than traditional MSDOS or GPT partition tables. … Continue reading →

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gdisk, oh glorious gdisk

Posted on 2012-08-10 by Jethro Carr

My file server virtual machine passed the 2TB limit a couple months ago, which forced me to get around to upgrading it to RHEL 6 and moving from MSDOS to GPT based partitions, as the MSDOS partitioning table doesn’t support … Continue reading →

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