What are the advantages of LVM?

[Luis]

after reading this thread i decided to take the plunge and use lvm2 in
a system that had disparate drives mounted all over the place.
something like:

/dev/hda1 /
/dev/hda3 /home
/dev/hda4 /home/Shared
/dev/hdb1 /home/Shared2
/dev/hdc1 /home/Shared3
/dev/hdd1 /home/Shared4

Now the drive looks like:

/dev/hda1 /
/dev/vg00/lvol00 /mnt/shared
/dev/vg00/bk00 /mnt/backup

And symlinks are in /home to point to the older paths in the new mount
point (so that exports files and autofs files don' t need to be
touched). in short, another LVM advantage: consolidates disparate
drives and partition. With the added, happy, note that it saves you
space! All that extra space that wasn't being used in legacy
partitions, say the one mounted on /home. Are not put to use for the
whole storage "solution".

Projects like LVM2 make me proud to have chosen Linux as my desktop OS
5 years ago... And I dislike the word "proud", but I have to admit
that it applies here. (Yes, i do know that Windows and perhaps other
OSes, provide LVM-like support... but that's not the only advantage of
using Linux. Look at the Ubuntu community and the people that get
together in the IRC chat rooms daily to help others. You don't get
that from corporate-oriented Windows).

Kudos to the LVM team. And the Ubuntu/Debian team for making the whole
thing absurdly easy to use.

On 5/24/06, jimcooncat <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
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> LVM snapshots for backup, especially for volitile partitions. Cyrus IMAP
> recommends using LVM for a full-metal-restore capability.
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