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Figure 7.5 Creating Logical Volumes
If you have already configured LVM on your system, the existing logical volumes can
be entered now. Before continuing, assign appropriate mount points to these logical
volumes too. With Next, return to the YaST Expert Partitioner and finish your work
there.
Direct LVM Management
If you already have configured LVM and only want to change something, there is an
alternative way to do that. In the YaST Control Center, select System > LVM. Basically
this dialog allows the same actions as described above with the exception of physical
partitioning. It shows the existing physical volumes and logical volumes in two lists
and you can manage your LVM system using the methods already described.
7.2 Soft RAID Configuration
The purpose of RAID (redundant array of independent disks) is to combine several
hard disk partitions into one large virtual hard disk to optimize performance, data secu-
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