5 docs tagged with "disk"

For GPT systems, we can use:

Linux distributions provide block device level encryption primarily through the use of LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup). LUKS is installed on top of cryptsetup.

Popular hard disk types:

Virtual devices may be easier to manage than physical devices, and can have capabilities beyond what the physical devices provide themselves. A Volume Group (VG) is a collection of one or more physical devices, each called a Physical Volume (PV). A Logical Volume (LV) is a virtual block device that can be used by the system or applications. Each block of data in an LV is stored on one or more PV in the VG, according to algorithms implemented by Device Mapper (DM) in the kernel.

RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) is a data storage virtualization technology.