On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 09:46:34AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > LVM is much more flexible and less prone to do things to your data > than, say, the tools that re-size your partitions the hard way. You do > still have to exercise common sense, however. > > I've lost a re-sized partition permanently using a commercial tool > whose name I refuse to remember. > > I lost a bunch of LVM partitions once through pure carelessness and > used the LVM maintenance tools to recover them. Took a couple of hours > to read the manuals, recover, and be on my way. Kept using that > partition map for several years with no problems.
Please don't confuse physical volumes and partitions, the OP seems confused enough already. :) http://linuxconfig.org/linux-lvm-logical-volume-manager -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X
