The LVM is a powerful storage management module which is included in all the distributions of Linux now. It provides users with a variety of valuable features to fit different requirements. The ...

All Linux sysadmin books tell about the awesomeness of LVM. But is actually anyone using it? On a desktop it adds needless complexity - you only need boot, (efi), swap, root and perhaps home. You ...

Logical Volume Management (LVM) is an abstraction layer over the hard drives, which allows the Linux kernel to access the filesystems normally, yet each filesystem may be comprised of multiple hard ...

As Linux systems administrators watch over their hardware and software infrastructures, they constantly have to look ahead to how much space to allocate to hard-disk partitions to meet changing needs.