Doing snapshots with XFS filesystems

Posted on April 27, 2011 by DiAbOlIkO

Problem

There are several Howtos on the net, which tell you to do the following if you want to create LVM snapshots if you have XFS filesystems on your logical volumes:

xfs_freeze -f /mnt/xfs
lvcreate Continue reading →

Expanding a LVM logical volume

Posted on April 27, 2011 by DiAbOlIkO

This tip explains how to expand an existing logical volume by adding a new new physical volume to a volume group through LVM. The e2fsprogs and lvm2 packages are required to follow these steps, but these Continue reading →

Resizing your file based XEN Virtual Machine on CentOS

Posted on December 17, 2008 by Defected

One of the best references for getting started using virtual machines using XEN and CentOS can be found here. It is well written, very easy to follow and can quickly get you up and running.

Recently I Continue reading →

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Doing snapshots with XFS filesystems

Problem

Expanding a LVM logical volume

Resizing your file based XEN Virtual Machine on CentOS