LVM stands for Logical Volume Manager. As the name stands LVM manages many volumes logically, mean you can give it a no of volumes and partition them according to your wish without restricting on size of partition, you can extend a lvm just by adding new volume to it, suppose you have two 40 gb harddisk, and you need a partition of size say 60 gb one option is to add two partition on raid 0 array and then create a partition of 60 gb but what if you wanted to create a partition of 20 gb which you dont wanna to make a part of lvm but in case of raid array you have to no option but do that. however in LVM you can do like add 40 gb of one partition and 20 gb of another partition to LVM group and you have a 60 gb lvm and you can extend it further by adding some partition or new harddisk to it. mor can be found at wiki pages. at here <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_volume_management> Regards
Sumit Sati On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 5:35 PM, amit <awavh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > what is lvm how it works > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to linuxusersgroup@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe, send email to linuxusersgroup-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
