On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Paul Fox wrote: > [email protected] wrote: > > disadvantages to using partitions > > > > primarily boils down to one > > > > you have to decide ahead of time how big to make the partitions, and > > changing this later is non-trivial. if you guess wrong you can end up > > running out of space in one place while you have extra space in others. > > it's kind of surprising that no one has (or, maybe they have and > i'm once again unaware) developed easy to use partition and fs > resizing technology to help solve this problem. imagine having > the / and /home filesystems on adjacent partitions. it would be > nice to be able to slide the boundary between them: when doing > an upgrade, minimize home, and maximize root. when the upgrade > is finished, minimize root and maximize home. you'd get to keep > the advantages of segregation between the two, while also getting > the ability to more fully utilize the total disk space.
this is what LVM claims to solve. however for the small disk size and the complexity involved I don't think it would be a good idea. David Lang _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
