Frequent Question: Should I Use Lvm with Linux Mint?
Contents Lvm Is a Fine Idea for Multiple Small Drives or Larger Servers but with the Lower Cost of Multi-Terabyte Drives It’s Not a Lot of Use for Home Users...
LVM is a fine idea for multiple small drives or larger servers but with the lower cost of multi-terabyte drives it’s not a lot of use for home users. There is, however, one thing that I found it good for. LVM works great for striping multiple drives together for raid 0 type configurations.
Should I install Linux with LVM?
LVM can be extremely helpful in dynamic environments, when disks and partitions are often moved or resized. While normal partitions can also be resized, LVM is a lot more flexible and provides extended functionality. As a mature system, LVM is also very stable and every Linux distribution supports it by default.
Why should I use LVM?
The main advantages of LVM are increased abstraction, flexibility, and control. Logical volumes can have meaningful names like “databases” or “root-backup”. Volumes can be resized dynamically as space requirements change and migrated between physical devices within the pool on a running system or exported easily.
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