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Acronym for Logical Volume Management.

A cool technology that lets you build multi disc arrays and put partitions across them however you like. A new feature in the Linux Kernel 2.4.

See the excellent HowTo at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/.

Related to RAID.

See LVMNotes for some hints.