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What is the difference between physical and logical partition of hard drive in a linux system ?

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What is the difference between physical and logical partition of hard drive in a linux system ?
posted Apr 30, 2017 by Vikram Singh

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I never did hard drive partition since it is done by my IT team. But I think logical partition of hard drive provides mechanism to create volume groups (VGs) and logical volumes from the volume groups. These logical volumes are managed by logical Volume Manager (LVM).

answer May 1, 2017 by Harshita
Thanks Harshita to share your knowledge.
commented May 1, 2017 by Vikram Singh
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