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> Logical volume management provides a higher-level view of the disk
storage on a computer system than the traditional view of disks and
partitions. This gives the system administrator much more flexibility
in allocating storage to applications and users.
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> Storage volumes created under the control of the logical volume
manager can be resized and moved around almost at will, although this
may need some upgrading of file system tools.
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> The logical volume manager also allows management of storage volumes in
user-defined groups, allowing the system administrator to deal with
sensibly named volume groups such as "development" and "sales" rather
than physical disk names such as "sda" and "sdb".
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