[CentOS] When should LVM be used?
Ron Blizzard
rb4centos at gmail.com
Fri Jul 30 21:11:17 UTC 2010
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 6:18 AM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> LVM has a number of useful features and advantages. The 'default'
> RedHat/CentOS LVM setup (basically creating one LVM volume taking up all
> available space for the root file system), is pretty useless. With
> modern *large* disks. LVM (if set up properly) allows creating and/or
> resizing logical disks without having to shutdown and/or rebooting the
> system. This is often usefull for installing virtual processes (eg with
> xen).
Thanks. I don't know if my 160 Gig hard drive would qualify as a
modern *large* disk or not, but it's definitely bigger than the
current 20 Gig one. I thought an external USB drive would work fine,
but I'm finding the current situation is too cramped.
Is there any way to mount an LVM partition from another Linux distribution?
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RonB -- Using CentOS 5.5
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