8.18. Summary
This chapter has covered the three low-level devices that can be used by Linux systems to store filesystems. The simplest are regular disk partitions, which are just a single section of a hard disk. RAID devices are more complex, as they combine multiple partitions into single, large virtual partitions. LVM, the most complex and powerful of all, can be used to create volumes that cover multiple partitions and that contain filesystems that can be expanded as more space is added. All of these device types appear the same to users when they have been initialized with a filesystem and mounted on a directory somewhere.
After reading this chapter, you should understand the differences between them in terms of simplicity, reliability, ...
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