Linux’s Logical Volume Manager is a handy framework for configuring disks and volumes. Learn how to use LVM to grow and shrink existing volumes as needed. Image: Andreas Prott/Adobe Stock The Logical ...

As Linux systems administrators watch over their hardware and software infrastructures, they constantly have to look ahead to how much space to allocate to hard-disk partitions to meet changing needs.

All Linux sysadmin books tell about the awesomeness of LVM. But is actually anyone using it? On a desktop it adds needless complexity - you only need boot, (efi), swap, root and perhaps home. You ...

I've got a box here that runs 6 KVM virtual machines, each of which has a dedicated LVM logical volume mounted using virtio. I'm attempting to create filesystem backups preparatory to doing a ...