End Partitioning Hassles with LVM

[Warren Togami]

End Partitioning Hassles with LVM
http://linux.org.mt/article/lvm

(excerps from the article)
The ideal situation would be if hard disk storage were added and removed
more or less like RAM: you simply add a new disk to your "hard disk pool"
and get "x" megabytes of additional space on your filesystem. The space gets
added to your existing directory tree instead of requiring you to create a
new mount point and mount the new hard disk there.
In Linux, this is the job of the Logical Volume Manager. With the LVM, you
no longer have to worry about how much space each partition will contain. In
fact, you may no longer have to worry about partitions at all. Instead of
partitions and hard disks, you have logical volumes.


SuSE Whitepaper on LVM
http://www.suse.com/en/support/oracle/docs/lvm_whitepaper.pdf

Warren Togami
warren at togami.com