Tag Archives: LVM

Arch Linux: mount LVM partitions and run mkinitcpio
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15 April 2025

It’s not often, but sometimes I need to boot the system from a USB and rebuild initramfs-linux.img. This post is more of a quick note to myself on how, what, and where to mount on my laptop to run mkinitcpio, as I have LVM partitions, separate disk partitions for /boot, and swap. iwctl and WiFi… Read More: Arch Linux: mount LVM partitions and run mkinitcpio0 (0) »

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Linux: LVM – pvcreate Device /dev/sdb4 excluded by a filter.
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9 March 2019

During new Linux set up – suddenly got a weird message. It happen just because of my carelessness and haste. Let’s create new partition: [simterm] [root@archiso ~]# pvcreate /dev/sdb4 Device /dev/sdb4 excluded by a filter. [/simterm] Check new partition size: [simterm] [root@archiso ~]# lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT loop0 7:0 0 476.7M… Read More: Linux: LVM – pvcreate Device /dev/sdb4 excluded by a filter.0… »

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Arch Linux: grub-mkconfig hangs on the /boot/grub/grub.cfg config generation
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23 February 2019

During new Arch Linux set up grub-mkconfig suddenly hangs on creating new /boot/grub/grub.cfg. No warnings, no errors. Thanks to this>>> googled discussion – it worked for me. So the issue looks like next: [simterm] [root@archiso boot]# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg ^C [/simterm] Check the /usr/bin/grub-mkconfig script for every /dev/null redirects: [simterm] [root@archiso boot]# cat /usr/bin/grub-mkconfig |… Read More: Arch Linux: grub-mkconfig hangs on the /boot/grub/grub.cfg config generation0 (0) »

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