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RHEL Intermediate #2: LVM — PV/VG/LV, Snapshots, Expansion
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RHEL Intermediate #2: LVM — PV/VG/LV, Snapshots, Expansion

LVM, the standard for RHEL 9 disk operations, covered in depth. The abstraction layer between physical disks and the filesystem, the three-layer relationship of PV/VG/LV, the full flow of adding a new disk to expand an LV, capturing a pre-backup state with snapshots and rolling back, and thin provisioning and RAID options — all in one post.