On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Drew <drew.kay at 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 I understand the advantages when using a server, but my personal computer is a Small Form Factor Dell GX270 with only one hard drive slot. But I'll look closer into LVM options when I install on the bigger hard drive. Thanks. -- RonB -- Using CentOS 5.5