As usual, this blog post comes out of something I have been working on (read as: struggling with) for the past few days. The purpose is to give an overview of disk partitioning under Linux, ...

Linux installation sets up fixed partition sizes as the default behavior. Logical volumes allow you to leave unpartitioned space on the hard disk and add it to a specific partition as needed ...

Notice also how two inner and two outer disk partitions were allocated to each solution. The idea was to eliminate any unintentional speed advantages due to quicker access times for inner disk tracks.

Hi,I have a dedicated server that was provisioned with "default" partitioning.At that time, I had no intention of using LVM, and I didn't consider asking for a better partition setup, for LVM ...

Libstdc++.so UI of Visual LVM Remote With a concise UI, partitions/physical volumes/logical volumes are displayed by disk layout. With a glance, disk/volume group information can be obtained ...

As Linux systems administrators watch over their hardware and software infrastructures, they constantly have to look ahead to how much space to allocate to hard-disk partitions to meet changing needs.