[CentOS] When should LVM be used?

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Juergen Gotteswinter <jg at internetx.de> wrote:

> * snaphotting (great for db backup)
> * resizing partition
> * "online" partitioning

I didn't know LVM would do snapshots -- I'll have to look into that.
But I'm guessing the feature is pretty much worthless if the whole
hard drive is taken up by one LVM partition -- which has been my
CentOS default setups.

Thanks.

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RonB -- Using CentOS 5.5