Logical Volume Manager

tags: learning linux

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• imagine we have a drive (SSD), it’s separated into 3 partitions
• one of the partitions is used for /home
• if /home is running out of space, and we wanna extend the size of the partition, we can use LVM to do it
  • plug a new disk to the computer and partition it however we want
  • add it to the same volume group as /home’s partition
  • extend /home’s volume
  • resize /home’s filesystem

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