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In [[computer storage]], '''logical volume management''' or '''LVM''' provides a method of allocating space on [[mass storage|mass-storage]] devices that is more flexible than conventional [[Partition (computing)|partitioning]] schemes to store volumes.  In particular, a volume manager can concatenate, [[Data striping|stripe]] together or otherwise combine partitions (or [[block device]]s in general) into larger virtual partitions that administrators can re-size or move, potentially without interrupting system use.

Volume management represents just one of many forms of [[Storage Virtualization|storage virtualization]]; its implementation takes place in a layer in the [[Device driver|device-driver]] stack of an [[operating system]] (OS) (as opposed to within storage devices or in a network).