LVM
LVM stands for Logical Volume Manager, a mechanism that provides an alternative method of managing storage systems than the traditional partition-based one.
Category: filesystem
Mount Remote Directories over SSH
SSHFS (SSH Filesystem) is a filesystem client based on FUSE for mounting remote directories over an SSH connection. SSHFS is using the SFTP protocol, which is a subsystem of SSH and it is enabled by default on most SSH servers.
Install ZFS on Linux
Install ZFS on Linux box.
Install Ubuntu with Manual LVM Setup
The problem with installing Ubuntu with LVM using the installer will only give you 1 GB of swap space, which is insufficient for 16 GB of RAM. Also, it would install everything into a single root partition.
Swap Size
Most Linux installations suggest you include a swap partition. What is a swap partition for and how to estimate the required size?
Setup Swapfile on Linux Box
Swap is a space on a disk that is used when the amount of physical RAM memory is full. When a Linux system runs out of RAM, inactive pages are moved from the RAM to the swap space.