{"id":4637,"date":"2019-11-23T12:16:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T12:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.davelevy.info\/?p=4637"},"modified":"2025-04-28T17:11:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T17:11:23","slug":"raspberry-pi-and-lvm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/raspberry-pi-and-lvm\/","title":{"rendered":"Raspberry Pi and LVM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My NAS Box Fan has failed, I need to decide to repair or replace. One obvious answer is to use my “Pi” to serve out a pair of mirrored USB connected disks. How to do that on a PI? Here are my notes which I never implemented; basically I am using one of the cloud providers …<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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  1. A thread by me<\/a> on the ‘Pi’ community forums, common wisdom is to use rsync but I’d prefer a synchronous solution; @swampdog mentions LVM.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. This thread at stack exchange<\/a> talks about building an LVM solutions for booting a ‘Pi’.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. This thread<\/a> at\u00a0the ‘Pi’ community forums documents the installation runes, the package is called lvm2. i.e. sudo apt-get install lvm2<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Here’s an article on how to<\/a> make a mirrored volume, most resources seem to be aimed at Red Hat, For more from Google, …<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Here is a how to<\/a> which came to my attention because it talks about snapshots.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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