Logical Volume Manager - LVM
Logical Volume Manager - LVM Partitions, Slices and Frustration When you think about storage, generally we think of things like disks, driver letters, filesystems and partitions. Typically a disk is broken up into areas called partitions (or slices) and each partition can be dedicated to some kind of storage purpose such as holding a fileystem or swap area. While this is easy and straight forward for most, it can be very frustrating when a partition is out of space or you want to reorganize data or even replace a hard drive. Partitioning usually means setting the beginning and ending points on a hard drive for an area of storage. This can cause issues since usually partitions are placed one after the other on the hard drive. Why is this a problem? Consider a drive with two partitions. If you wanted to expand the first partition somehow, you are probably looking at destroying the following partition to accomplish the task. Did you know... Sun Solaris 8 could only handle disk...