[OT?] Linux Volume Manager (was: Re: Disk Partitioning for Newbies (everything you always wanted to know))

[Leen Besselink <leen@wirehub.nl>]

On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Nils Kassube wrote:

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> Backup everything. (You do backups, don't you?) Re-partition
> your hard drive. Have more fun :-)

With kernel 2.4 soon, you won't have to really repartition anymore... you
can just resize them and create new ones... and so on (on the fly, no
reboot, no downtime) (it's called LVM, Linux Volume Manager). Website:
http://linux.msede.com/lvm/

There will be some GUI tools out there, that you can use to do all that as
well.

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I hope this was helpfull.