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!!Setting up [LVM] under Linux on a single drive
-You will want to make sure Multi device support (RAID and LVM) is enabled and LVM support is compiled into your kernel. You could build it as a module and load it from your initrd, but you don't really need to go to the effort.
+You will want to make sure Multi device support ([
RAID]
and [
LVM]
) is enabled and LVM support is compiled into your kernel. You could build it as a module and load it from your initrd, but you don't really need to go to the effort.
!!Scenario
You have a 36gb disc (this might be a RAID logical volume already, but the system sees it as one disc with 36gb on it). You want to install partitions for /usr, /var etc (smart) but you're not sure what sizes they need to be and you will want to be able to resize them in future.