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I wish I understood what virtually any of all that means. Sounds fascinating
LVM
is the Linux Volume Manager. In short it's kind of like a partitioner inside the OS (but with lots of cool features, like encryption, snapshots and restores, and caches, RAID)So you add all your drives, potentially with different groups like NVME, SSD. Then in those groups you create a volume (think partition).
Examples:
For example my laptop has one drive, and one volume group, but I have a separate volume for home so I can take snapshot (which are small if things haven't changed much!) and keep my home direecty when installing a new distro. I also make a separate volume for a VM to keep my machine clean.
My server, however, has 2 NVME drives and 12 spinning rust drives in 3 USB enclosures. Each USB drive is set as its own VG. USB is slow though, LVM to the rescue.
I set the rest of the space on the 1st NVME and all the space on the 2nd NVME to work as a cache for each of the external enclosures.
Now writes are NVME speeds and it will write back to the spinning rust at USB speed. Reads from the usb enclosures if cached are at NVME If it's in the read cache I get is at NVME speeds, otherwise it reads off the drive. At this point my read cache since creation is 82% and continuing to climb. So less than 1/5th of the reads actually went over the USB. At the rate it's climbing the current hit rate must be in the mid to high 90s.
A
pre-seed
file is basically the answers to all the questions the installer would normally ask, like how to partition the drives, what mirror to use, software to install, settings to make, etc. default user accounts, etc. Now you can run that installer on a machine and walk away until it's done.I never thought such a thoughtful and detailed reply would leave me even more confused than I was to begin with. I guess I learned that possibility existed so TIL
Hard drives are divided into
partitions
. Once they're made they're (mostly) static, it's just a division, no other features.LVM
(Linux Volume Manager) makes it's own"partitions"
with hookers and blackjack. Since it's done in the OS and not on the drive it's a LOT more flexible.It takes disk(s) and/or
partitions
and combines them into avolume group
(VG
) and then lets you create it's own divisions, called[logical] volumes
(LV
), to split up the storage. Think of this as a "virtual hard drive" that has a TON of features.VGs
can include multiple drives and are easy to grow or shrink, add, remove, or replace physical drives, cache another volume, encrypt, make snapshots and roll back (eg: snapshot before update, restore if update borks something). Just so muchYou can even set the
RAID
level for each volume!RAID
controls how many copies are kept on different drives.RAID1
(orraid10
) has 2 drives hold the data) for important things so even if one drive fails you still have a working copy.RAID0
only stores it on one device. There'sRAID5
(3 copies) but it's mostly obsolete at this point as the rebuild process is painfully slow and adds addition wear on the other drives.Let's say you have 4x 4TB drives, for 16TB of raw space (
raid0
). Making it araid1
would give you 8TB of space (since two copies are stored on different drives). But if you only need 1TB as araid1
and the rest israid0
you end up with 14TB of space left over! That's a lot more than 8TB!There's a brazillion different options and useful things it can do. Mostly I find it useful for working with raids on servers. But I've stated leaving a few hundred gigs on my laptop to create volumes as need, such as an encrypted volume that's not unlocked on login to store passwords, keys, and ~~porn~~ tokens.
So it's like if I had a bag of candy and my wife wants me to share I could create a 2nd copy that she doesn't get to see. Share what she can see and keep the rest for myself?