Under Linux, an LVM is enabled by a kernel-loadable module, similar to a device driver in Windows. Kernel modules capture disk functions from user operations and convert them to write to the ...

Linux installation sets up fixed partition sizes as the default behavior. Logical volumes allow you to leave unpartitioned space on the hard disk and add it to a specific partition as needed ...

As usual, this blog post comes out of something I have been working on (read as: struggling with) for the past few days. The purpose is to give an overview of disk partitioning under Linux, ...

Libstdc++.so UI of Visual LVM Remote With a concise UI, partitions/physical volumes/logical volumes are displayed by disk layout. With a glance, disk/volume group information can be obtained ...

Hi,I have a dedicated server that was provisioned with "default" partitioning.At that time, I had no intention of using LVM, and I didn't consider asking for a better partition setup, for LVM ...

Notice also how two inner and two outer disk partitions were allocated to each solution. The idea was to eliminate any unintentional speed advantages due to quicker access times for inner disk tracks.

After some digging I found that the underlying Physical Volumes are setup as Linux Native (83) and not Linux LVM (8e) I didn't know this was possible. Every piece of documentation I have says 8e.