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In Linux, Logical Volume Manager (LVM) is a device mapper target that provides logical volume management for the Linux kernel.
LVM is used for the following purposes:

 * Creating single logical volumes of multiple physical volumes or entire hard disks (somewhat similar to RAID 0, but more similar to JBOD), allowing for dynamic volume resizing.
 * Managing large hard disk farms by allowing disks to be added and replaced without downtime or service disruption, in combination with hot swapping.
 * On small systems (like a desktop), instead of having to estimate at installation time how big a partition might need to be, LVM allows filesystems to be easily resized as needed.
 * Performing consistent backups by taking snapshots of the logical volumes.
 * Encrypting multiple physical partitions with one password.

LVM can be considered as a thin software layer on top of the hard disks and partitions, which creates an abstraction of continuity and ease-of-use for managing hard drive replacement, repartitioning and backup.

(source: [[WikiPedia:Logical_Volume_Manager_(Linux)|WikiPedia]] )

Description

In Linux, Logical Volume Manager (LVM) is a device mapper target that provides logical volume management for the Linux kernel. LVM is used for the following purposes:

  • Creating single logical volumes of multiple physical volumes or entire hard disks (somewhat similar to RAID 0, but more similar to JBOD), allowing for dynamic volume resizing.
  • Managing large hard disk farms by allowing disks to be added and replaced without downtime or service disruption, in combination with hot swapping.
  • On small systems (like a desktop), instead of having to estimate at installation time how big a partition might need to be, LVM allows filesystems to be easily resized as needed.
  • Performing consistent backups by taking snapshots of the logical volumes.
  • Encrypting multiple physical partitions with one password.

LVM can be considered as a thin software layer on top of the hard disks and partitions, which creates an abstraction of continuity and ease-of-use for managing hard drive replacement, repartitioning and backup.

(source: WikiPedia )

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