Storage Management with an LVM GUI. Have you been looking for open-source storage management tools that are easy to use and provide a graphical representation of your storage.
Alas, there are no comprehensive tools but there are graphical tools that you can pair with command-line wizardry, particularly LVM. I’ve been on a quest for good open-source storage management tools. These tools, preferably a single tool, would allow me to create, control, and monitor all aspects of storage whether it be iSCSI based storage, NAS, local file systems, users, etc. It would be independent of the hardware yet have the ability to interact with many types of hardware such as RAID cards (the ones supported in the kernel) and networking devices (focused on storage networking).
Alas, such a beast does not exist (at least that I can find) and the question of whether such a beast should exist is open for debate. LVM is a wonderful way of managing your storage devices. In a previous article I mentioned three GUI tools that interact with LVM. Partition manager that can handle LVM? Adding a New Disk to a Fedora Volume Group and Logical Volume. From Techotopia In the previous chapter we looked at adding a new disk drive to a Fedora system, creating a partition and file system and then mounting that file system so that the disk can be accessed.
An alternative to creating fixed partitions and file systems is to use Logical Volume Management (LVM) to create logical disks made of space from one or more physical disks or partitions. The advantage of using LVM is that space can be added to or removed from logical volumes as needed without the need to spread data over multiple file systems. Let us take, for example, the root (/) file system. Without LVM this filesystem would be created with a certain size when the operating is installed. In this chapter we will look at the steps necessary to add new disk space to both a volume group and a logical volume for the purpose of adding additional space to the root file system. [edit] An Overview of Logical Volume Management (LVM) LVM consists of the following components:
How to Backup Linux? 15 rsync Command Examples. Rsync stands for remote sync. rsync is used to perform the backup operation in UNIX / Linux. rsync utility is used to synchronize the files and directories from one location to another in an effective way.
Backup location could be on local server or on remote server. Important features of rsync Speed: First time, rsync replicates the whole content between the source and destination directories. Syntax $ rsync options source destination Source and destination could be either local or remote. How to Backup Fedora 16 « Software Engineering/Development of Jeremy Caton. How to Restore Fedora Core 16 From Backup « Software Engineering/Development of Jeremy Caton. This article describes the process of restoring a Fedora Core 16 hard drive from backup. It assumes familiarity with backing up Fedora Core 16 using the tools and process described in my previous article "How to Backup Fedora Core 16". Reasons for Restoration: Accidental file deletionHard drive mechanical failureCreating a duplicate/mirror installation Depending on the reason for restoring your system, you might have other alternatives to a full restore.
If you’ve accidentally deleted a file in Fedora 16 using the GUI, first check the Trash virtual folder. We’ll assume that for one of the above reasons you need to perform a full restore from backup. What you will need: 1) System Rescue CD With fsarchiver (v 2.4.1 or better) 2) a second hard disk containing the backup files that you created The Steps: You should now be able to boot the machine from the restored hard drive. I hope that this article helps someone. Posted by admin on January 20, 2012. Tags: HowTo linux sysadmin. Tutorial: Moving Fedora Linux to a larger partition. Tutorial: Moving Fedora Linux to a larger partition.
I have finished moving my standard Fedora 14 install to a larger partition. I had a few bugs that others might encounter so I hope this tutorial will get them over the humps. The Complete Guide to Running Windows On Mac OS X Using VirtualBox. Zeal for Technology: Install VirtualBox on Fedora 16 Host. This installation procedure can be applied to both Fedora 15 and Fedora 16.
If you had follow my post before and confident with my script, you can scroll down to the bottom of the post and download the script. The script will automatically download, configure and install VirtualBox. First, you need to download the repository file from: Then you need to move the file "virtualbox.repo" to the folder /etc/yum.repos.d/. In the terminal, navigate to the location where you kept the file and use the command: $sudo mv virtualbox.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/Then you need to install dkms as follows:$sudo yum install dkmsTo install the latest version of VirtualBox use the command:$sudo yum install virtualbox-4.1If you prefer the older version of VirtualBox just change the version number such as:$sudo yum install virtualbox-3.2$sudo yum install virtualbox-3.1$sudo yum install virtualbox-3.0$sudo yum install virtualbox-2.2$sudo yum install virtualbox-2.1Automation Script *** End ***