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 ...

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 ...

</pre><BR><BR>So, in a system-only restore, I only want to restore the volume groups system_base and system_other, and not restore user_base (assume user_base is on a separate set of disks from the ...

Linux’s Logical Volume Manager is a handy framework for configuring disks and volumes. Learn how to use LVM to grow and shrink existing volumes as needed. Image: Andreas Prott/Adobe Stock The Logical ...

All Linux sysadmin books tell about the awesomeness of LVM. But is actually anyone using it? On a desktop it adds needless complexity - you only need boot, (efi), swap, root and perhaps home. You ...