(thing) by Navarre Wed May 30 2001 at 18:47:54

A logical volume is a collection of harddisk partitions, mountable as if it were a single partition. The advantage of this is that you can dynamically change the size of the "partition" while the box is running.

HP implements this in HP-UX, and I hear that it's done in Linux kernel 2.4.

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