And yes, I'm confirming for the presentation for the BALUG 2005-05-17 meeting.

For the web site ... hmmmm, might first want to correct the presently self-contradictory text (or whatever/however it was generated): "The next meeting is today (Tuesday, May 17th) at 7pm"

Anyway, for at least a short(?) little blurb to update the web site, at the moment, you can add this on there (or if this is way too long, see the shorter alternative version further below): " For our May 17th meeting, we will have a presentation by Michael Paoli on Logical Volume Manager (LVM) on LINUX. LVM allows for rather powerful and flexible management of hard drive space. Rather than mostly having to deal with physical disks and partitions, with LVM, one creates logical volumes, which can then be used to contain filesystems or other data. Unlike physical hard drives or partitions, however, logical volumes can be relocated - including to other physical disks - while the data is in use, and logical volumes can also be resized, again, while their data is in use (provided whatever is using the data can handle that - e.g. this can be very powerful for filesystem types that can be grown with the filesystem mounted). Also, unlike partitions on physical hard drives, when one grows a logical volume, one generally only needs available space in the volume group (which is composed of whole disks devices and/or partitions), and avoids all the typical issues of resizing a partition (with partitions, one needs contiguous available space after a partition to grow a partition). One can also span multiple physical disks with a logical volume, and thus have filesystems that are larger than the physical disk size. These are some of LVM's powerful capabilities. The meeting presentation also promises to include live demonstration of some of LVM's capabilities. "

Anyway, ... that should do for a, ... uhm, ... "short" blurb on the web site. If it's quite too big to be feasible to go there, perhaps alternatively, this would do: " For our May 17th meeting, we will have a presentation by Michael Paoli on Logical Volume Manager (LVM) on LINUX. LVM allows for rather powerful and flexible management of hard drive space (e.g. relocating mounted filesystem to another hard drive or growing it without particular regard to partition boundaries, etc.). The meeting presentation also promises to include live demonstration of some of LVM's capabilities. "

I'll also put together a bit more polished text that can be used for BALUG-announce, etc. Expect that within a week (holler if you need it sooner).

references/excerpts: http://lists.balug.org/private.cgi/balug-admin-balug.org/2005-March/000017.h...