Tag: linux

Moving lvm-thin volumes on proxmox between vm-s or ct-s

by Andreas | Posted on 5. November 2021 | Leave a comment

it’s pretty straight forward following this official howto: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Moving_disk_image_from_one_KVM_machine_to_another lvs shows you all volumes in their volume group (in my case ‘ssd’) If the id of the new ct or vm is not equal to the id of the volume’s previous attachment, rename them, i.e. lvrename ssd/vm-101-disk-1 ssd/vm-117-disk-2 this will make vm-101-disk-1 available as vm-117-disk-2,

Configure Ubuntu 18.04 with grub2 to activate serial console

by Andreas | Posted on 16. December 2019 | Leave a comment

Activate serial console in grub2 menu configuration, as it is by default deactivated

chroot and serial console to fix ubuntu distro upgrade gone wrong

by Andreas | Posted on 20. September 2018 | Leave a comment

I had to fix a do-distro-upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04 due to a severed ssh connection, and no screen running (apparently earlier distro upgrades used screen to prevent this kind of problem) the machine as a PCengine apu2, so no video. also, the root file system is sitting on a miniPCI ssd. eventually, my thinkpad