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A volume is a virtual or physical entity to store data (usually permanently). The term is used both for filesystems and block devices.

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How do I extend a partition with a LVM and the contained physical volume and logical volume?

On my 240 GB SSD I had at first two partitions, one containing the Logical Volume with Linux Mint and the other had contained a NTFS partition to share with Windows. Now I removed the NTFS partition and want to extend my logical volume group to use…
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How to stop gnome from muting my music?

I use ArchLinux, and I recently installed Spotify which is working fine, except for one thing: Every time any program triggers a system sound, the player volume is automatically muted in the mixer. How can I stop this? I have verified that this also…
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How to get volume level from the command line?

I have a text status bar on a tiling window manager and I am using tcl to feed information to it. At the moment I need a command line that output the volume level 0% to 100%. I am using Arch Linux.
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Get the current volume level in OS X Terminal CLI?

I would like to check the current volume level from the CLI on my Mac. I know I can set it like this: osascript -e 'set volume ' But that doesn't seem to work when trying to get the current volume level. $ osascript -e 'get volume' 4:10:…
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What does `cryptsetup resize` do if LUKS doesn't store partition size?

The LUKS / dm-crypt / cryptsetup FAQ page says: 2.15 Can I resize a dm-crypt or LUKS partition? Yes, you can, as neither dm-crypt nor LUKS stores partition size. I'm befuzzled: What is "resized" if no size information is stored? How does a…
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When and where to use rw,nofail,noatime,discard,defaults?

I am using OpenStack Cloud and using LVM on RHEL 7 to manage volumes. As per my use case, I should be able to detach and attach these volumes to different instances. While updating fstab, I have used defaults,nofail for now but I am not sure what…
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SELinux and docker: allow access to X unix socket in /tmp/.X11-unix

How to allow access to a particular X unix socket for a particular docker container with SELinux enabled? I prefer a solution with a setup of docker run --security-opt. On fedora 25, I found the docker daemon running with--selinux-enabled per…
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How to remove a disk from an lvm partition?

Can anyone help ? I have 2 disks spanning my main partitions. 1 is 460Gb and the other is a 1TB. I would like to remove the 1TB - I would like to use it in another machine. The volume group isn't using a lot of space anyway, I only have docker with…
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Volume Management: How to move space from one partition to another?

I am setting up a redhat ec2 instance and by default the software I am using (called qradar) created the following volumes on the two 500g ebs storage devices attached to the instance: $ lvs LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin…
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Is there any risk to create an LVM group with two disks of different physical sector size?

I have two hard drives of different physical sector size. I would like to create an LVM volume group with them, however, when I do so with vgcreate, I get a warning telling me that the two disks have different physical sector size. Is there…
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Volume too quiet at maximum

I recently replaced my broken Sennheiser PC350 to a Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro 80 Ohm headphones and I've encountered a really annoying issue. Everything is too low. I can listen to it, but it's almost as if I'm on 10% of max volume. On Windows this…
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Allow audio from only one application

I'd like to only allow audio from a certain application. That is, I'd like to have audio turned off by default for new programs. I'm aware that in PulseAudio one can mute programs, but the problem is that (for me) new programs always begin unmuted.
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LVM Volume Group not found

After rebooting my server i get the following error message: Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount … done. Begin: Mounting root file system … Begin: Running /scripts/local-top … Volume group “ubuntu-vg” not found Cannot process volume group…
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Master volume keeps changing, how can I find out what causes this?

The master volume keeps changing while I'm listening on youtube music in the browser. The OS is Debian Jessie. I adjusted the volume in the GUI and using the terminal (with "amixer set Master 40%") and it later changed repeatedly regardless the way…
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Change volume with terminal

Using mate and linux mint, I would like to create another keyboard shortcut to increase and decrease the volume. Currently, I'm using custom keyboard bindings with mate-keybinding-properties. I bought a wireless headset which includes buttons to…
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