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Using System Storage Manager

Using System Storage Manager

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Using System Storage Manager

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- [Instructor] System Storage Manager, or SSM, is a tool to manage storage. It can create partitions, file systems, logical volumes, btrfs volumes, encrypted drives, and RAID devices. SSM has back ends for different kinds of storage, including LVM, Crypt, btrfs, and MD, and is expandable. The idea behind ssm is that an administrator can use the same tool to manage all types of storage, instead of using LVM tools, crypt setup, btrfs tools, and MD admin. In this exercise, we'll use SSM to create a new volume. Before we do that, we need to clear out some of our old drives. Let's ensure that the LV data logical volume is unmounted so we can delete its components. Type in sudo umount /dev/vgdata/lvdata and hit enter. Type in your password as prompted. Now that we've ensured it's not mounted, let's remove the volume group. It will prompt us to remove logical volumes in it. Type in sudo vgremove vgdata and hit enter. Say yes when prompted to remove the logical volumes and volume group. Now…

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