Re: [CentOS] When should LVM be used?

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Benjamin Franz jfranz@freerun.com wrote:

You can use LVM for taking snapshots as well (very useful if you want to quiesce databases for the shortest possible time for backups) .  And you can use LVM to migrate data from an old drive to a new one or even to *shrink* a partition. I've never found LVM to 'be a pain'. 99% of the time it's invisible, and 1% of the time it's indispensable.

I guess my ignorance is showing. It could also be that the small hard drives that I usually use with CentOS really can't take advantage of this feature. So far I haven't done much with servers, but I have been experimenting with Asterisk and plan to work through the "Foundations of CentOS" -- so that should change.