The Logical Volume Manager
We’ve all been there: a shiny new Linux distro comes out and you want to install it, but you already have your favourite distro installed alongside Windows 10 – and while there’s free space on the drive, it’s all enclosed in the OS partitions. Ideally you’d buy another drive, but that costs.
You could resize your Windows partition and move your Linux partition to the left, but experience has told you this takes time and there’s a reasonable chance Windows won’t boot afterwards. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could effortlessly add, remove and resize partitions without extended wait times and the nail-biting prospect of failure? Well, you can’t. You can’t because Windows doesn’t support LVM. But if all you have are Linux partitions, then good news: LVM can make your life easier.
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