What is LVM?
Bob McClure Jr
bob at bobcatos.com
Mon May 29 03:23:25 UTC 2006
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 03:10:40AM -0000, Salman Siddiqui wrote:
>
> What is LVM??
Logical Volume Management. It allows you more flexibility in
allocating storage for filesystems. See the HOWTO for more info:
http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/index.html
especially
http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/whatisvolman.html
Your existing system is probably already set up with it.
> should I choose ext3 or LVM while partitiong???
You still need a normal ~100MB partition for the ext3 /boot
filesystem, but for the big partition assigned to LVM, it should be
type LVM.
> am a little confused?
Cheers,
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