Using Logical Volume Management (Linux Journal) [LWN.net]

Here is a Linux Journal article about Logical Volume Management. "Last December, I set up my Linux workstation. Since I didn't really know how I would use the machine over the next few months, I decided to install LVM - I was trained in IBM AIX LVM, so I knew what it could do. I also chose to create my filesystems using ReiserFS, which turned out to be a huge benefit. Four months later, I filled the /home filesystem. Traditionally, I would have been forced to move stuff around, and make a bunch of symlinks to use the space on another file system, or repartition, reformat and reload my data. In this case, /home was 100% full, but my /share and /tmp filesystems had several gigabytes of unused space on them. The LVM HOWTO descibes a classic scenario like this one that illustrates exactly why LVM is an excellent tool."

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Using Logical Volume Management (Linux Journal)

Posted Sep 23, 2002 19:25 UTC (Mon) by barbara (subscriber, #3014) [Link]

A more up-to-date LVM HOWTO url is: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/. Latest revision: 2002-09-11.

Barbara