Storage

Working with Raw LVM Disk Images

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Mounting disk images on Linux is fairly straight forward, however an image with a Logical Volume Manager (LVM) partition requires a little more attention. The first thing I do is find out some information about the image(s): root@box:# fdisk -l -o Device,Type,Size disk.img Device Type Size disk.img1 Linux 1G disk.img2 Linux LVM 952.9G -l lists … Read more

IBM M1015 9220-8i cross-flashed to LSI 9211-8i IT mode

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Flashing a raid card to a different firmware takes about five minutes, however if you have never done it before, the research process can be an order of magnitude higher. I spent about a day parsing all the blogs, forum posts, and subreddits that discuss flashing the LSI9211 HBA firmware to IT mode on compatible … Read more