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Linux Logical volume manager
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Linux Logical volume manager
Logical Volume manager (LVM) creates an abstraction layer over physical storage, that allows us to create logical storage volumes. This provides much greater flexibility than using physical storage directly. A logical volume provides storage virtualization. With a logical volumes, you are not restricted to physical disk sizes. In addition, the hardware storage configuration is hidden from the software so it can be resized and moved without stopping applications. This tutorial has info on how to create Logical volumes & snapshots using LVM commands.
LVM components: This diagram shows the components of LVM.  Read the detailed one at http://unixfoo.blogspot.com/2008/12/linux-logical-volume-manager-basics.html 
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