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