Partitioning hard disk with old traditional methods is still commonly used by many users. However, taking advantage of LVM (Logical Volume Manager) to create LVM partition and manage multiple hard disks specially on a scalable severs running Linux operating system with the ability to extend or reduce the size of the logical volume and the volume groups, creating snapshot backups of logical volume, encrypting entire system based on LVM and more.
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