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Storage

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Table of Contents

• Storage
• Layout
• Common Commands
• Mounting

Storage

Agap uses LVM.

Layout

Disk	Size	VG	LV	Mount
nvme0n1	238GB	ubuntu-vg	ubuntu-lv	/ (OS)
sda (SSD)	447GB	ssd1	main	/mnt/ssd
sdb (HDD)	931GB	hdd1tb	backups	/mnt/backups
sdb (HDD)	931GB	hdd1tb	misc	/mnt/misc
sdb (HDD)	931GB	hdd1tb	media	/mnt/media

Mount	Contents	Size
/mnt/ssd	DB data, thumbnails, encoded video	447GB
/mnt/backups	All backups (gitea, dbs, media)	400GB LV
/mnt/misc	Gitea data	280GB LV
/mnt/media	Immich photo originals	251GB LV

Common Commands

First, create partition using sudo fdisk /dev/sda.

# Physical volumes
sudo pvs
sudo pvcreate /dev/sda1

# Volume groups
sudo vgcreate group_name /dev/sda1

# Logical volumes
sudo lvcreate -L 30G group_name -n lv_name
sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/group_name/volume_name

# Overview
lsblk
sudo lvs

Mounting

1. Create directory under /mnt
2. Mount the volume
3. Add entry to /etc/fstab for persistence