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From: Johnny Rebel on 17 Apr 2008 19:08
Mark Anderson wrote:
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> I really don't see any advantages to logical partitions over regular
> partitions or understand how logical partitions are more stable than
> regular partitions. I'm sure someone saw a value in them or they never
> would have been developed. I've always used the KISS approach when
> using computers. Unfortunately, that FC4 physical disk partitioned with
> lvm will be that way for the foreseeable future so I still have to keep
> up to date with it.
>

LVM offers many advantages over standard partitioning. Every run out of
space on a slice yet have a 500 GB disk sitting next to it ? LVM would
fix that in a jiffy. You can add storage to your fs's on the fly. In
enterprise storage when you are dealing with large LUNs, you can move
data off a physical disk and replace it with a larger one - not losing
any space. You can do snapshot volumes... the list is huge. In large
environments, LVM's are almost exclusively used. AIX for instance, that
is all it does. Every disk gets pulled in for use. That is standard
partitioning on AIX.... (which is not as good as Linux's LVM IMHO).

JR.

JR.

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-Tux.
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