Logical Volume Vs HDD

[Timothy Murphy]

Ali Helmy wrote:

> Thanks mates, I now have a single LV that spans both of my small HDDs
> together, to make a single 30GB partition, out of a 10GB & 20GB HDDs...

I know that is possible, but what is the point of it?
Wouldn't it be easier to have, say, / on the first disk 
and /home on the second?
What is the advantage of a single LV?


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