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    • AdamFA
      AdamF @travisdh1
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      @travisdh1 said in Vultr, Block Storage CentOS:

      cat /etc/fstab

      [root@xxx ~]# cat /etc/fstab
      
      #
      # /etc/fstab
      # Created by anaconda on Mon May  8 18:05:59 2017
      #
      # Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
      # See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info
      #
      /dev/mapper/vg_data-lv_root /                       ext4    defaults        1 1
      UUID=2d9dfe5e-db4c-4936-b234-3dbdf62a90e1 /boot                   ext4    defaults        1 2
      /dev/mapper/vg_data-lv_swap swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
      tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
      devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
      sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
      proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
      
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      • AdamFA
        AdamF @travisdh1
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        @travisdh1 This system has high usage. I fully expect it to fill up rapidly.

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        • travisdh1T
          travisdh1 @AdamF
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          @fuznutz04 said in Vultr, Block Storage CentOS:

          @travisdh1 This system has high usage. I fully expect it to fill up rapidly.

          Ah, ok. Yeah, block is probably your most efficient use of resources for this then.

          vgcreate /dev/sdb #I'm assuming the new block storage will show up as an sd device
          vgextend /dev/sdb vg_data
          lvextend lv_root -l +95%FREE
          resize2fs /dev/vg_data/lv_root
          

          Shouldn't take much time at all. As always, we'd want to have a backup available before touching storage things.

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          • AdamFA
            AdamF @travisdh1
            last edited by

            @travisdh1 said in Vultr, Block Storage CentOS:

            @fuznutz04 said in Vultr, Block Storage CentOS:

            @travisdh1 This system has high usage. I fully expect it to fill up rapidly.

            Ah, ok. Yeah, block is probably your most efficient use of resources for this then.

            vgcreate /dev/sdb #I'm assuming the new block storage will show up as an sd device
            vgextend /dev/sdb vg_data
            lvextend lv_root -l +95%FREE
            resize2fs /dev/vg_data/lv_root
            

            Shouldn't take much time at all. As always, we'd want to have a backup available before touching storage things.

            I'm going to give this a test on a test system just because I have never dealt with Vultr block storage. Then if all is well, I'll give this a go.

            I'm assuming if there is an issue with block storage (like there was earlier this week with the NJ data center) that it would cause the VPS to crash. Hopefully this isn't the case. 🙂

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            • AdamFA
              AdamF @travisdh1
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              @travisdh1 Thank you for this BTW. I'll probably do this this weekend, but wanted to get prepared and wrap my head around this first.

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              • travisdh1T
                travisdh1 @AdamF
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                @fuznutz04 said in Vultr, Block Storage CentOS:

                @travisdh1 Thank you for this BTW. I'll probably do this this weekend, but wanted to get prepared and wrap my head around this first.

                Glad to help. LVM is one of my big knowledge wheelhouses if you can't tell.

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                • AdamFA
                  AdamF @travisdh1
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                  @travisdh1 said in Vultr, Block Storage CentOS:

                  @fuznutz04 said in Vultr, Block Storage CentOS:

                  @travisdh1 Thank you for this BTW. I'll probably do this this weekend, but wanted to get prepared and wrap my head around this first.

                  Glad to help. LVM is one of my big knowledge wheelhouses if you can't tell.

                  I noticed. Before I met you this year, I watched your LVM presentation from Mangocon 2016.

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                  • stacksofplatesS
                    stacksofplates @travisdh1
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                    @travisdh1 said in Vultr, Block Storage CentOS:

                    Because you're using LVM, options 2 and 3 are both doable. To me 2 is quicker and easier, but I've used LVM long enough that I know how to do most of that off the top of my head. The only thing I normally have to lookup is how to expand the file system, because the process tends to be a little different depending on the file system. Real quick here.

                    pvcreate /dev/device
                    vgextend volume_group_name /dev/device
                    lvextend logical_volume_name -l +95%FREE
                    xfs_growfs /dev/volume_group_name/logical_volume_name
                    

                    done. Shouldn't take but 5 minutes, if that.

                    Edit: I normally go with either 90% or 95% of the available space in the volume group to keep space available for a local snapshot.

                    If you pass -r to lvextend it will auto resize the filesystem. That way you don't need to remember the differences between them.

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                    • AdamFA
                      AdamF @stacksofplates
                      last edited by

                      @stacksofplates said in Vultr, Block Storage CentOS:

                      @travisdh1 said in Vultr, Block Storage CentOS:

                      Because you're using LVM, options 2 and 3 are both doable. To me 2 is quicker and easier, but I've used LVM long enough that I know how to do most of that off the top of my head. The only thing I normally have to lookup is how to expand the file system, because the process tends to be a little different depending on the file system. Real quick here.

                      pvcreate /dev/device
                      vgextend volume_group_name /dev/device
                      lvextend logical_volume_name -l +95%FREE
                      xfs_growfs /dev/volume_group_name/logical_volume_name
                      

                      done. Shouldn't take but 5 minutes, if that.

                      Edit: I normally go with either 90% or 95% of the available space in the volume group to keep space available for a local snapshot.

                      If you pass -r to lvextend it will auto resize the filesystem. That way you don't need to remember the differences between them.

                      So you are saying instead of this:

                       lvextend logical_volume_name -l +95%FREE
                      

                      Use this:?

                      lvextend logical_volume_name -r
                      
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                      • travisdh1T
                        travisdh1 @AdamF
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                        @fuznutz04 said in Vultr, Block Storage CentOS:

                        @stacksofplates said in Vultr, Block Storage CentOS:

                        @travisdh1 said in Vultr, Block Storage CentOS:

                        Because you're using LVM, options 2 and 3 are both doable. To me 2 is quicker and easier, but I've used LVM long enough that I know how to do most of that off the top of my head. The only thing I normally have to lookup is how to expand the file system, because the process tends to be a little different depending on the file system. Real quick here.

                        pvcreate /dev/device
                        vgextend volume_group_name /dev/device
                        lvextend logical_volume_name -l +95%FREE
                        xfs_growfs /dev/volume_group_name/logical_volume_name
                        

                        done. Shouldn't take but 5 minutes, if that.

                        Edit: I normally go with either 90% or 95% of the available space in the volume group to keep space available for a local snapshot.

                        If you pass -r to lvextend it will auto resize the filesystem. That way you don't need to remember the differences between them.

                        So you are saying instead of this:

                         lvextend logical_volume_name -l +95%FREE
                        

                        Use this:?

                        lvextend logical_volume_name -r
                        

                        More like

                        lvextend logical_volume_name -l +95%FREE -r
                        
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                        • AdamFA
                          AdamF @travisdh1
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                          @travisdh1 Thanks

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                          • travisdh1T
                            travisdh1 @AdamF
                            last edited by

                            @fuznutz04 said in Vultr, Block Storage CentOS:

                            @travisdh1 Thanks

                            If you want to just look at how powerful LVM has become through the years, you should run lvm and look at the help screens sometime. That's how I dived into it initially at least.

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                            • AdamFA
                              AdamF @travisdh1
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                              @travisdh1 Run LVM? You mean just look at the man pages? Or are you referring to something else?

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                              • travisdh1T
                                travisdh1 @AdamF
                                last edited by

                                @fuznutz04 said in Vultr, Block Storage CentOS:

                                @travisdh1 Run LVM? You mean just look at the man pages? Or are you referring to something else?

                                It's got a whole environment just for its self. Literally just lvm on a command line.

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                                • AdamFA
                                  AdamF @travisdh1
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                                  @travisdh1 Ah nice. Will do. I want to learn a lot more about it, so I'll take your advice.

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                                  • travisdh1T
                                    travisdh1 @AdamF
                                    last edited by

                                    @fuznutz04 said in Vultr, Block Storage CentOS:

                                    @travisdh1 Ah nice. Will do. I want to learn a lot more about it, so I'll take your advice.

                                    The amount of options is almost staggering. Even more, ZFS, brtfs and a number of other filesystems have just as many options and choices to make.

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                                    • AdamFA
                                      AdamF @travisdh1
                                      last edited by

                                      @travisdh1 said in Vultr, Block Storage CentOS:

                                      @fuznutz04 said in Vultr, Block Storage CentOS:

                                      @travisdh1 Ah nice. Will do. I want to learn a lot more about it, so I'll take your advice.

                                      The amount of options is almost staggering. Even more, ZFS, brtfs and a number of other filesystems have just as many options and choices to make.

                                      Yeah, one at a time. I've worked with ZFS in the past, but it was when I was using FreeNAS back in the day.

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                                      • travisdh1T
                                        travisdh1 @AdamF
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                                        @fuznutz04 said in Vultr, Block Storage CentOS:

                                        @travisdh1 said in Vultr, Block Storage CentOS:

                                        @fuznutz04 said in Vultr, Block Storage CentOS:

                                        @travisdh1 Ah nice. Will do. I want to learn a lot more about it, so I'll take your advice.

                                        The amount of options is almost staggering. Even more, ZFS, brtfs and a number of other filesystems have just as many options and choices to make.

                                        Yeah, one at a time. I've worked with ZFS in the past, but it was when I was using FreeNAS back in the day.

                                        At least it's all the same stuff, just called something different for the most part.

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                                        • AdamFA
                                          AdamF @travisdh1
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                                          @travisdh1 Right. Seeing as how the world is built on storage systems, I need to dig in a little.

                                          That's all for now. Good night NotJengaMaster.

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                                          • travisdh1T
                                            travisdh1 @AdamF
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                                            @fuznutz04 said in Vultr, Block Storage CentOS:

                                            @travisdh1 Right. Seeing as how the world is built on storage systems, I need to dig in a little.

                                            That's all for now. Good night NotJengaMaster.

                                            whispers it's the glasses

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