What is LVM?

[Bob McClure Jr]

On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 03:10:40AM -0000, Salman Siddiqui wrote:
>   
> What is LVM??

Logical Volume Management.  It allows you more flexibility in
allocating storage for filesystems.  See the HOWTO for more info:

http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/index.html

especially

http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/whatisvolman.html

Your existing system is probably already set up with it.

> should I choose ext3 or LVM while partitiong???

You still need a normal ~100MB partition for the ext3 /boot
filesystem, but for the big partition assigned to LVM, it should be
type LVM.

> am a little confused?

Cheers,
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