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Cheat Sheet for mdadm & lvm

Posted by phatdee on December 24, 2019
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Copied from https://gist.github.com/plepe

mdadm

md: multiple devices
command description

 

show status of all raids

 

detailed status of raid md0

 

new raid /dev/md0 with 2 disks, raid level 1 on /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2

 

remove /dev/sda1 from /dev/md0

 

add /dev/sda1 to /dev/md0

 

use 3 disks in raid /dev/md0 (e.g. add an additional disk, so a damaged drive can be removed later-on)

 

Assemble /dev/md0 (e.g. when running live system)

 

Update list of arrays in /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf ; you should remove old list by hand first!

 

What is this disk / partition?

 

Set minimum raid rebuilding speed to 10000 kiB/s (default 1000)

 

Copy partition table from sdX to sdY (MBR only)

 

Copy partition table from sdX to sdY (GPT)

To boot a machine even with a degraded array, modify /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/mdadm and run update-initramfs -c -kall (Use with caution!)

LVM

pv: physical device (e.g. /dev/md0 or /dev/sda1)
vg: volume group (consists of 1 or more pvs, contains lvs); has a name (e.g. lvm)
lv: logical volume (has a name which defines its path, e.g. /dev/lvm/root which equals dev/mapper/lvm-root)
command description

 

initializes /dev/md0 as phys device for a volume group

 

create volume group lvm with phys device /dev/md0

 

create logical volume root, sized 30G in volume group lvm; format with ext4

 

extend /dev/lvm/root to 60G; also resize file system to new size

 

show short info about pv, vg and lv

 

show long info

scan disks for physical volumes (e.g. when running live system)

 

add phys device /dev/md1 to volume group lvm (need pvcreate first!)

 

move all logical volumes from /dev/md0 and remove phys device from volume group

Other
create bios grub partition

 

LVM CheatSheet

Posted by phatdee on October 15, 2011
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Logical Volume Manager (LVM)

taken from http://www.datadisk.co.uk/html_docs/redhat/rh_lvm.htm

This is a quick and dirty cheat sheet on LVM using Linux, I have highlighted many of the common attributes for each command however this is not an extensive list, make sure you look up the command.

With the pvs, vgs and lvs commands, the number of verboses added the more verbose information for example pvs -vvvvv

[table id=3 /]

Increasing LVM on Vmware with SLES11.

Posted by phatdee on May 27, 2011
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Our standard build = 30GB.  How do you expand the file system without losing data and/or the VM.

Our test

30GB standard VM

Need to increase /motr to 100GB

Before you start, verify that the new space can be seen.  Here is the un-modified fdisk.

Either reboot, or just enter this in.  This will rescan the disk to find the new space.

echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/device/rescan

 

 

#1  Start by creating a new primary with your new disk space, this also can be an extended

p = print

n = create new partition

w = write

t = type (8e = LVM)

Here’s the original without the new partition.

 

Add a new partition with the new space, we will create this on /dev/sda3.  n = create new partition, p = print, t = disk type

Now that it’s created we need to specify the partition type and switch that to Linux LVM.  Type = 8e for Linux LVM

 

Looks good.   Now we need to write this partition to disk using the w

 

 

run partprobe -s

which will re-scan the new partition table.  A reboot will do the samething, but why reboot?

 

Increase the physical layer

 

Increase the “system” volume. System = the volume name

 

Increase the Logical Volume

 

Finally increase the file system.

Note:  I had issues trying to use resize2fs on a physical host, as I was attempting to expand file system by adding a new disk to the system.  So try this as last step if that fails..

resize_reiserfs: On-line resizing finished successfully.

 

That’s it.