Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Thu 24th Jul 2008 21:12 UTC, submitted by sharkscott
The GNU/Linux operating system is blessed to have sound partition management tools like GParted which are very easy to use. However, when it comes to the management of 'virtual partitions' known as volumes, things are quite different. There is Linux Volume Management, or LVM for short, however it can only really be used from the command line.
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Member since:2008-07-24
No, it wasn't my first time using it.
I'm not saying that some man pages might be intimidating, but this article isn't about the modern tools at all. It's about EVMS, which is old and outdated and unsupported.
If it's just a blog post about some guy who was in an awkward situation, that's fine, but trying to draw conclusions about the state of modern volume management tools from it is a poor choice.
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2006-01-23
I just walked over to one of the machines in this lab and set up his initial configuration with software raid and lvm2, resized it down, and created new partitions at the end of the disks, like he wanted.
It took me like 10 minutes, including checking the options in the man pages. I'll do it again and post a transcript if anyone wants it.
This article is not about LVM at all as the summary suggested. This article is complaining about EVMS being obsolete.
Also, system-config-lvm is open-source. It's not red hat's fault if your distro doesn't choose to provide it.
Was that your first time using it?
I'm not saying that it can't be done correctly first time that quickly with some research, but it seems a bit quick for someone like the author, who had Gentoo installed for him and who was generally unknowledgeable about Linux.