Logical volumes are an alternate method of partitioning hard drive space. The capability has been built into the Linux kernel since 1999, contributed by Sistina Software. The Logical Volume Manager is ...

Logical Volume Manager (LVM) helps you manage your storage better by introducing a layer of abstraction over your storage hardware. When you’re freed from hardware limitations you can use more than ...

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.

Linux’s Logical Volume Manager is a handy framework for configuring disks and volumes. Learn how to use LVM to grow and shrink existing volumes as needed. Image: Andreas Prott/Adobe Stock The Logical ...

How to add a new LVM volumes for full and partial disk usage Your email has been sent The Logical Volume Manager commands in Linux facilitate adding new disks and volumes to the operating system. It’s ...

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 ...

PV /dev/sda VG keith-vg lvm2 [119.24 GiB / 0 free] PV /dev/sdb1 VG keith-vg lvm2 [74.53 GiB / 784.00 MiB free] --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/sda VG Name keith-vg PV Size 119.24 GiB / not usable ...

Making inventories of computer storage, particularly on severs, is complex due to the number of factors involved. There might be multiple physical media devices each of which contains multiple logical ...