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 ...

Maintenance of the storage system is a daily job for system administrators. Linux provides users with a wealth of storage capabilities, and powerful built-in maintenance tools. However, these tools ...

I created /dev/md0 using mdmadm (five SSDs, RAID5) and when I create a volume group I get the following output: Code: lvm> pvcreate /dev/md0 Physical volume "/dev/md0" successfully created lvm> ...