Logical volumes enable you to manage server disk space. If problems occur with your logical volumes, however, it's harder to fix them than it is with normal partitions. Troubleshooting the management ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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. The Logical Volume Manager commands in Linux ...

Scott Reeves shows how to use two handy commands to back up and restore volume group metadata on LVM. Two of the useful commands provided as part of Logical Volume Manager (LVM) is vgcfgbackup and ...

In recent years, there has been a trend in which data centers have been opting for commodity hardware and software over proprietary solutions. Why shouldn't they? It offers extremely low costs and the ...