Physical volumes Once you have the LVM partition you need to initialize the physical volume (PV) using the command pvcreate. To continue our example with /dev/sdb1, run pvcreate /dev/sdb1.

The graphical interface would dramatically simplify both learning curve and operation with LVM, in a similar approach as partition tools that are widely used on Windows/Linux platforms. Although ...

That's when I discovered Linux LVM (Logical Volume Manager). With LVM you can, if you like, treat the removable drives as large, cheap tapes and use any of the traditional rotation schemes of ...