Re: New dual-boot laptop with two SSD drives: should I use LVM (and I have no experience with it)?

2019-04-13 Thread Thomas D Dial
On Sat, 2019-04-13 at 08:18 +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 12/04/2019 à 22:46, Thomas D Dial a écrit : > > In terms of management, it is a major advance over physical > > partitioning > > for the file systems and, depending on particular file system > > characteristics, allows you to get out

Re: New dual-boot laptop with two SSD drives: should I use LVM (and I have no experience with it)?

2019-04-13 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 12/04/2019 à 22:46, Thomas D Dial a écrit : In terms of management, it is a major advance over physical partitioning for the file systems and, depending on particular file system characteristics, allows you to get out of space problems without down time in many cases (online resizing is

Re: New dual-boot laptop with two SSD drives: should I use LVM (and I have no experience with it)?

2019-04-12 Thread Thomas D Dial
On Fri, 2019-04-12 at 09:41 -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > I've been using Linux for over 20 years, and Debian for over 10, but > I've always used conventonal partitions and /etc/fstab definitions. > > Now that I'm getting a virgin, up-to-date laptop, I am considering > ising LVM but want to get the

Re: New dual-boot laptop with two SSD drives: should I use LVM (and I have no experience with it)?

2019-04-12 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 12.04.2019 19:41, Tom Browder wrote: > I've been using Linux for over 20 years, and Debian for over 10, but > I've always used conventonal partitions and /etc/fstab definitions. > > Now that I'm getting a virgin, up-to-date laptop, I am considering > ising LVM but want to get the option of

New dual-boot laptop with two SSD drives: should I use LVM (and I have no experience with it)?

2019-04-12 Thread Tom Browder
I've been using Linux for over 20 years, and Debian for over 10, but I've always used conventonal partitions and /etc/fstab definitions. Now that I'm getting a virgin, up-to-date laptop, I am considering ising LVM but want to get the option of expert users: Should I go that route? Every thing I