Utilizing LVM
Your organization’s requirements will evolve over time. As server administrators, we constantly strive to set up resources with future expansion in mind. Unfortunately, budgets and policy shifts frequently get in the way. You’ll find that LVM is invaluable in the long run. Linux’s superiority in scalability and cloud deployments is due in large part to technologies such as LVM. By using LVM, you can expand or contract your filesystems without having to restart the server. Consider the following scenario. Say you have a mission-critical app operating on a virtualized production server. It’s possible that when you initially set up the server, you allocated 300 GB of space for the application’s data directory, thinking it would never grow to fill that much space. The expansion of your company has not only increased your space requirements but also created a crisis. So, tell me, what do you do? If the server was initially configured to use...