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Why and when should I use LVM?
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this post was submitted on 28 Nov 2023
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interesting facts about LVM:
You can make a volume snapshot of the system before a major change (for example, an update).
You can enable caching and use HDD together with SSD cache
You can build raid 0,1,5 directly on LVM (you still need modules from mdraid)
Even without a raid, you can expand the partition beyond one disk to another or migrate the partition from disk to disk (without even disabling it)
However, all this is done from the console and I do not know if there is a GUI.