What Is Physical Extent and Logical Extent in Linux?
Contents the Size of the Extents Is Determined by the Volume Group (All Volumes Within the Group Conform to the Same Extent Size). the Extents on a Physical...
The size of the extents is determined by the volume group (all volumes within the group conform to the same extent size). The extents on a physical volume are called physical extents, while the extents of a logical volume are called logical extents.
What is physical extent size?
Each physical volume is divided chunks of data, known as physical extents, these extents have the same size as the logical extents for the volume group.
What is LVM in Linux?
LVM stands for Logical Volume Management. It is a system of managing logical volumes, or filesystems, that is much more advanced and flexible than the traditional method of partitioning a disk into one or more segments and formatting that partition with a filesystem.
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