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Re: adding new hard disk



Citát Travis Crump <pretzalz@techhouse.org>:

> panda wrote:
> >>
> > Hi
> > 
> > Actually her question brings up an interesting point. Suppose this 
> > needed to be done in a big corporation where it is necessary to maintain 
> > some level of service and the question of scalability is a very 
> > important one.
> > 
> > They would prefer some means of doing the same adding disks to the 
> > system to allow for greater storage with minimal disruption. It would be 
> > really costly if they had to resort to something like copy everything 
> > and then resize.
> > 
> 
> That is what LVM is for.[This wouldn't help OP, because her existing 
> partitions would need to already be LVM for this to help her]
> 
BTW... excuse mu ignorancy can you explain to me what LVM is and how it works?
thax ed.





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