Logical Volume Manager
LVM is a logical volume manager for the Linux kernel; it manages disk drives and similar mass-storage devices, in particular large ones. The term "volume" refers to a disk drive or partition thereof.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Linux
No longer updated. Last version, 0.19, was released in November 2006.
Features
- LVM
Tags
- mass-storage
Logical Volume Manager News & Activities
Recent activities
- TheEmperorArt added Logical Volume Manager as alternative to iBeesoft Disk Partition Wizard
- POX added Logical Volume Manager as alternative to DarkDiskz
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What is Logical Volume Manager?
LVM is a logical volume manager for the Linux kernel; it manages disk drives and similar mass-storage devices, in particular large ones. The term "volume" refers to a disk drive or partition thereof. It was originally written in 1998 by Heinz Mauelshagen, who based its design on that of the LVM in HP-UX. The abbreviation "LVM" can also refer to the Logical Volume Management available in HP-UX, IBM AIX and OS/2 operating systems. The installers for the Arch Linux, CrunchBang, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandriva, MontaVista Linux, openSUSE, Pardus, Slackware, SLED, SLES, and Ubuntu distributions are LVM-aware and can install a bootable system with a root filesystem on a logical volume.