[PlanetCCRMA] OT: all you FC3 experts...

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Wed Apr 13 11:00:01 2005


One more comment, I think the fc3 uses lvm if you choose to do automatic
partitioning of the drives. If you do manual partitioning then you can
choose to use just plain partitions. 

-- Fernando

On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 10:23, Alex Timmer wrote:
> all the info you need is here :
> 
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
> 
> "What is Logical Volume Management?
> ----------------------------------
>  Logical volume management provides a higher-level view of the disk
> storage on a computer system than the traditional view of disks and
> partitions. This gives the system administrator much more flexibility
> in allocating storage to applications and users.
> 
> Storage volumes created under the control of the logical volume manager
> can be resized and moved around almost at will, although this may need
> some upgrading of file system tools.
> 
> The logical volume manager also allows management of storage volumes in
> user-defined groups, allowing the system administrator to deal with
> sensibly named volume groups such as "development" and "sales" rather
> than physical disk names such as "sda" and "sdb". "
> 
> hth, ALEX
> 
> 
> 
>  --- Aaron Trumm <aaron@nquit.com> wrote: 
> > Speaking of FC3 - do any of y'all know this?:   when you install
> > fedora core
> > 3 and you have two hard drives and it creates this "volgroup" thing -
> > what's
> > going on there?  is it using two drives as one bigger drive?  is it
> > mirroring one drive?  what's the deal?
> > 
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