On Saturday 26 March 2011 23:46:26 Alan McKinnon wrote: > So LVM takes a bunch of disks or arrays and lets you combine them in ways > you want them (not ways the hardware forces you to have them). And > that's all it does
I also find it handy for creating more partitions than the standard hardware schemes allow - it used to be 12 on a SCSI disk and 15 on IDE; I haven't bothered to find out what SATA allows. This wouldn't usually matter on a production system, but experimenting with other distros is eased by using LVM. So is creating several swap partitions with different sizes and priorities: small ones for normal use and big ones for compiling Open Office - that sort of thing. -- Rgds Peter
