Partitioning Question

[Tony Arnold]

George,

On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 20:37 -0400, George Peatty wrote:
> > I've never yet used LVM, and have no plans to, so if you do, it's up to
> > others if you need help here.
> 
> I take it LVM is something that is done on a hard drive with no data?  I
> mean, there is no way to setup and LVM and keep existing data, right?

LVM can use individual partitions as 'physical volumes' which are
grouped together in 'volume groups' in which you create the 'logical
volumes'

So if you have an unused partition, you can set this as a physical
volume and start creating LVs. And still have your other non-LVM
partitions.

> I've been tempted on a couple of installs, but chickened out, not wanting to
> risk losing a 120GB HD that is about 60% full ..

If you have some spare space that can be made into a partition, then you
can start using LVM.

Regards,
Tony.
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