On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Drew <
drew.kay@gmail.com> wrote:
> LVM adds flexability that regular partitioning can't.
>
> Example 1. Say you've mounted an entire 2TB disk as /home and it's
> almost full. Now you want to add another 2TB to /home. How do you?
> Easiest way is with LVM. You just add the new disk into LVM's pool of
> storage and expand the home partition (Logical volume) to use the new
> space. Now you have a single filesystem spread across two disks.
>
> Example 2. Now let's say that you bought a NAS device (QNAP, Drobo,
> Buffalo) that does iSCSI or NFS and you want to move your data off the
> two local disks. With LVM you just add the new 'disk' into the pool
> then tell LVM to move existing data off the 'old' disk.
>
> Try doing that with parted. :-P