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01-30-2013, 01:19 AM	#1
sala7 LQ Newbie Registered: Jan 2013 Posts: 2 Rep:	what is LVM hi everyone can you help me with explain this concept LVM ? thank fol ALL

01-30-2013, 01:23 AM	#2
chrism01 LQ Guru Registered: Aug 2004 Location: Sydney Distribution: Rocky 9.2 Posts: 18,362 Rep:	http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ http://sunoano.name/ws/public_xhtml/lvm.html

01-30-2013, 01:47 AM	#3
sala7 LQ Newbie Registered: Jan 2013 Posts: 2 Original Poster Rep:	thank Mr.chrism01 thank very much

01-30-2013, 03:37 AM	#4
vipin310379 LQ Newbie Registered: Jan 2013 Location: Moga, Punjab Distribution: Redhat Posts: 19 Rep:	if you have created partitions of LVM type (8e), then you can increase/decrease the size of your partitions by using "lvextend/lvreduce" commands

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