I've been a sysadmin for a long time, and part of being a sysadmin is doing more than is humanly possible. Sometimes that means writing wicked cool scripts, sometimes it means working late, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hi All,<BR><BR>I'm playing around with VMware server 1.04 on my OpenSUSE 10.3 box and since I manage all my storage via LVM I've been trying to find a way to pass an LVM block device to a ...