WHERE: Oracle Building, Reston.
DATE: 1st Saturday of the month
TIME: 10:00 am to noon
NEXT MEETING: May 3rd, 2008
TOPICS: Experiences Introducing Linux in A Developing Country - El Salvador by Roger Broseus
LMV by Peter Larsen
At the end of the road lies opportunity. Roger discusses experiences in
introducing Linux in Santa Marta, El Salvador - a small village near the
frontier with Honduras: real-world frustrations, successes, and needs in a
developing country. With images to illustrate the setting and contrast between
an advanced and developing country.
LVM - your new, better, more flexible and powerful partitions
(and it'll probably make the coffee too). In today's Linux installations, we no longer use static partitions, but instead most installs defaults to the flexible logical volume manager (LVM). Using a device mapper, this tools allows us to dynamically manage space. We can add hard drives and simply expand the "partition" over the new disk, so no new design has to be done. Backup is a snap - create an offline snapshot of your hard drive is done in a matter of seconds. You ran out of space? Well, increase your partition size is easy - you don't have the limitations of traditional partitions.
Proposed Agenda
* Introduction
* Harddrives and Traditional Partitions
* LVM Components
* The Device Mapper and it's mysterious working
* Demo
o Setup from scratch
o How to query/view LVM information
If there is time (each subject below can easily take 15-30 minutes):
o Adding space - expansion
o Snapshots and backups
o LVM configuration files
o LVM recovery
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