Linux Logical Volume Management HOWTO effort

Richard Allen <ra@ra.is>
bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>

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Warning! This page hasn't been maintained for a while, so take everything with a grain of salt - see also the official LVM HOWTO page

Linux contains a wildly powerful Logical Volume Manager which allows you to combine and mangle your disks to create very flexible volumes for your filesystems.

News

2000-04-16	Released version 0.0.2 - these version numbers a rather bogus, but every once in a while we feel that we have progressed significantly, and bump the version number a bit. The version on this page is up to date within 15 minutes of our latest changes.
2000-04-06	Released lvm-viewer
2000-04-04	Started writing a visual tool for LVM maintenance. Sneak preview screenshot available
2000-04-02	Richard Allen <ra@ra.is> joins as author. He has extensive knowledge of HP/UX LVM, which closely resembles the Linux implementation.
2000-04-02	Lots of new content. Added 'one big page' html.
2000-04-01	Initial version online

The HOWTO

This document is a very rough first draft and should not be assumed to be widely useful yet.

Files were last updated at 2002-05-15 14:37 CET (ie, about 68643.8 hours ago).

Bazaar

This HOWTO is intended to be very much a Bazaar style development. If it were to be any more open, bits would fall out. If you think our wording is bad, or you are able to resolve a FIXME, don't hesitate to mail us.

A CVS tree is available. try this:

$ export CVSROOT=:pserver:anon@outpost.ds9a.nl:/var/cvsroot
$ cvs login
CVS password: [enter 'cvs' (without 's)]
$ cvs co lvm-howto
cvs server: Updating lvm-howto
U lvm-howo/lvm-howto.sgml

The idea is that this HOWTO will be a cooperative effort, much like the Linux kernel itself. For the moment, we will be playing 'Linus', and we soon hope to be joined by Alans, Daves, Ingos etcetera.

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