[PLUG] LVM for multiple internal drives

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 26 Jan 2021, Galen Seitz wrote:

> What you are planning seems fine, but I think you may be confusing the
> various pieces of an LVM setup.

Galen,

You're correct. It was only Sunday I started learning about LVM. Since then
I've also read about it the 'UNIX and Linux System Administration Guide, 5th
Ed.'

> Typically each drive is treated as a physical volume. Physical volumes are
> placed into a volume group. Logical volumes are allocated out of the
> volume group. A filesystem (or swap) is created on a logical volume.

Yep. I'm still mis-using the terms. I have two physical volumes (pv), one
volume group (vg), and three logical volumes (lv).

> Note that only using LVM for the HDDs should be fine. I.e. keeping the SSD
> separate and not placing it in a volume group is okay.

That's what I think, too. Thanks for validating.

Best regards,

Rich