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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...