Adding a second drive to LVM

Written By
JJ
James J
Oct 16, 2019

We have all been in the situation where we ran out of space, and need to add another drive. Back before LVM, you would have to add a second drive, create a partition, and find a decent place to mount it. Those days are gone! Lets go over how to do this with LVM from start to finish.

JJ

James J

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