-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi,
jdd wrote: > can you expand that? I don't understand. > > do you mean that one can make partitions on a drive then set lvm to be > used only on this partition? Yes, sure. On my Laptop, I have one big partition, labelled as "LVM". Inside of this partition, LVM manages the volumes, which contain all my different file systems (various root file systems, swap, usr/local and my encrypted home file system). I can add/remove and resize these at will, within the boundaries of that partition. If I needed more space for these volumes, I could even assign another partition on the same disk to it (e.g. by removing my windows partition and adding it to the physical volume, or by adding another hard disk. Then the volumes could span across both disks. > if so, it's very good. Yes, it's very sweet! > I always have seen LVM advertised as a mean to have one partition > spanning several disks That is possible, but not a requirement. I'd like to recommend you to take a look at the LVM HOWTO, it explains the capabilities of LVM quite nicely: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ Bye, LenZ - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -o) [ICQ: 160767607 | Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /\\ http://www.lenzg.org/ V_V -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEgBohSVDhKrJykfIRAuGjAJ9r9MlBf1C+kyQwYJbtcDNJCjpAcwCfU8BD 0IXnJc/4NPlSpJCCoY7GCAU= =9ZEK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
