On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:12:19 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Mostafa Z. Afgani wrote: > > > > Paul Howarth wrote: > > | Wong Kwok-hon wrote: > > | > > |> Would someone tell me that is the LVM is installed by default in > > |> fedora core 3? > > |> Can I un-tick it when install? Or remove when it is installed ? > > |> Because all software is in same harddisk. > > | > > | > > | FC3 uses LVM2 by default. Why would you not want it? It's very useful. > > | > > | Paul. > > | > > Hello Paul, > > > > How exactly is it useful? I'm completely new to LVM... > > Well, for example, suppose you run out of disk space. With LVM you can just > add another disk, set it up as an LVM physical volume and then extend your > existing volume group to include the new disk. You can then extend the size of > your existing logical volumes to use the additional space. In effect, your > original disk becomes the sum of the two disks. Much easier than all the > shuffling around of data into different partitions that you'd need to do to > add an additional disk without using LVM. > > See also http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/whatisvolman.html I meant that is it installed by default ? Ringo
