Tag: lvm

Thin Provisioned Logical Volumes

One virtual machine for some unknown reason is utilizing thin provisioned logical volumes.  This one virtual machine is the only one in a series of virtual machines.  In any case, I didn’t understand what it meant to have a system running thin provisioned logical volumes until it crashed and I couldn’t revive it.  Fortunately, there was a snapshot that the…

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How to repair a damage fstab located on an LVM

i made a change to the /etc/fstab that looked perfectly fine until I rebooted the system (CentOS 6) running as a virtual machine.  The system did not start, there was a Kernel panic, and using the single boot mode did not provide any access to the system.  I changed the “/” partition to a UUID number after changing the volume…

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