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? -- RonB -- Using CentOS 5.5