Archive for 'Linux LVM'

Getting E-mail notifications when MD devices fail

I use the MD (multiple device) logical volume manager to mirror the boot devices on the Linux servers I support. When I first started using MD, the mdadm utility was not available to manage and monitor MD devices. Since disk failures are relatively common in large shops, I used the shell script from my SysAdmin [...]

Linux LVM silliness

While attempting to create a 2-way LVM mirror this weekend on my Fedora Core 5 workstation, I received the following error: $ lvcreate -L1024 -m 1 vgdata Not enough PVs with free space available for parallel allocation. Consider –alloc anywhere if desperate. Since the two devices were initialized specifically for this purpose and contained no [...]