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 ...

As Linux systems administrators watch over their hardware and software infrastructures, they constantly have to look ahead to how much space to allocate to hard-disk partitions to meet changing needs.

I've got a box here that runs 6 KVM virtual machines, each of which has a dedicated LVM logical volume mounted using virtio. I'm attempting to create filesystem backups preparatory to doing a ...