LVM is installed by default in Fedora Core 3??

[Wong Kwok-hon]

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:12:19 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> Mostafa Z. Afgani wrote:
> 
> 
> > Paul Howarth wrote:
> > | Wong Kwok-hon wrote:
> > |
> > |> Would someone tell me that is the LVM is installed by default in
> > |> fedora core 3?
> > |> Can I un-tick it when install? Or remove when it is installed ?
> > |> Because all software is in same harddisk.
> > |
> > |
> > | FC3 uses LVM2 by default. Why would you not want it? It's very useful.
> > |
> > | Paul.
> > |
> > Hello Paul,
> >
> > How exactly is it useful? I'm completely new to LVM...
> 
> Well, for example, suppose you run out of disk space. With LVM you can just
> add another disk, set it up as an LVM physical volume and then extend your
> existing volume group to include the new disk. You can then extend the size of
> your existing logical volumes to use the additional space. In effect, your
> original disk becomes the sum of the two disks. Much easier than all the
> shuffling around of data into different partitions that you'd need to do to
> add an additional disk without using LVM.
> 
> See also http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/whatisvolman.html

I meant that is it installed by default ?


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