Logical Volume Manager is a device mapper in LINUX which provides Logical Volume management.
With LVM, we can create logical partitions that can span across one or more physical hard drives.
LVM virtualizes the memory and the biggest advantage of LVM is that it allows disks to be added, replaced, reduced, resized without any downtime or service disruption.
LVM allows file systems to be easily resized later as per our need.
Creating and managing LVM is very simple. Just follow 3 steps process:
- First the hard drives are divided into physical volumes(PV).
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