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Recovering a Linux LVM due to lost information on a single member drive

Posted by Rich  Published in Linux

ikoniIf an LVM partition table or data containing the LVM information on the physical volume is ever lost, there is a way back out First, boot the system without the volume active. Get in to single user. Second, identify the device in question. In this example, let’s say /dev/sdb1 has lost its LVM information. Third, [...]

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29

Dec

Fedora 16 quirk

Posted by Rich  Published in Linux, Technical

Fedora has become rather dramatic in its fast moving changes.  Fedora of today is what RHEL will become, and the system as a whole will look entirely different.  systemctl is one of the bigger changes, and going from Fedora 14 to Fedora 15 wasn’t that painl since most services transferred over with ease.  However, going [...]

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29

Dec

Linux Logical Volumes

Posted by Rich  Published in Linux, Technical

Fedora, as do other distros, freaks out when you add a physical drive to a system which had been previously part of another logical volume.  This doesn’t happen often, but if it does, the symptom is when you run system-config-lvm and it exits unexpectedly with: ‘NoneType’ object is not iterable The way to resolve this [...]

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