What are the advantages of LVM?

Mon May 22 09:12:53 UTC 2006

On Mon, 2006-22-05 at 14:42 +0900, Craig Hagerman wrote:

> This is one of
> the benefits of LVM. With LVM you can dynamically resize partitions.

You know, I keep hearing this.  The problem is that, when I experimented
with LVM, I couldn't for the life of me figure out what LVM brought to
the equation.  I can resize ext2/3fs partitions as it is without LVM.
The process sucks, is highly error prone and is generally a worthless
waste of time -- it's faster to tar, repartition, restore -- but it can
in theory be done.

LVM looked to me like it could only resize partitions if I didn't care
about the actual data in it.  You know, as in tar, LVM resize, restore.
So what have I been missing?

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