I've been a sysadmin for a long time, and part of being a sysadmin is doing more than is humanly possible. Sometimes that means writing wicked cool scripts, sometimes it means working late, and ...

LVM (currently released as LVM2), the “logical volume manager”, is a flexible storage manager for the Linux kernel. It allows you to add, remove and resize partitions to suit your needs. Instead of ...

The combination of Linux software RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) and LVM2 (Logical Volume Manager, version 2) offered in modern Linux operating systems offers both robustness and ...

As Linux systems administrators watch over their hardware and software infrastructures, they constantly have to look ahead to how much space to allocate to hard-disk partitions to meet changing needs.