If you do, unlike gparted, LVM can move a partition while it is in use, and will not corrupt your data if it is interrupted. In the event that your system crashes or loses power during the move, you can simply restart it after rebooting and it will finish normally. When I got my SSD drive, I simply plugged it in, booted it up, and asked lvm to move my running root filesystem to the new drive in the background while I continued working. Another reason you might want to move is to replace an old disk with a new, larger one.
You can migrate the system to the new disk while using it, and then remove the old one later. Many Partitions If you like to test various Linux distributions, or just different version of Ubuntu, or both, you can quickly end up with quite a few partitions. With conventional msdos partitions, this becomes problematic due to its limitations.
With LVM you can create as many Logical Volumes as you wish, and it is usually quite easy since you usually have plenty of free space left. Usually people allocate the entire drive to one partition when they first install, but since extending a partition is so easy with LVM, there is no reason to do this.
It is better to allocate only what you think you will need, and leave the rest of the space free for future use. If you end up running out of the initial allocation, adding more space to that volume is just one command that completes immediately while the system is running normally. Snapshots This is something you simply can not do without LVM. It allows you to freeze an existing Logical Volume in time, at any moment, even while the system is running.
You can continue to use the original volume normally, but the snapshot volume appears to be an image of the original, frozen in time at the moment you created it. You can use this to get a consistent filesystem image to back up, without shutting down the system. You can also use it to save the state of the system, so that you can later return to that state if you mess things up. You can even mount the snapshot volume and make changes to it, without affecting the original.
The alternate installer has the ability to set up and install to LVM, and is the supported way of doing so. You can install the lvm2 package on an existing system, or the desktop livecd and manually set it up, and then install to it. This is what I will cover. Ubuntu First, you need a Physical Volume. Typically you start with a hard disk, and create an LVM type partition on it. Excerpt from wikipedia :. This can be useful when migrating whole logical volumes to or from offline storage.
In this tutorial, we will install Ubuntu on an LVM filesystem. Because Ubuntu does not support this out of the box, we will have to create and format our partitions using fdisk. Once the partitions will be created, we will start the installer and point it to the right partition. Because we are going to modify the hard-drive layout, be aware that you might delete datas. Please make sure you have backed-up all important datas.
Some extra space might be left on the LVM partition allowing you to grow your existing partitions if needed be. We have installed Ubuntu Server In the next article, we will see how to configure network in Ubuntu server with netplan network management tool.
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