On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 01:06:41PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > > LVM is an excellent solution for what it was designed to do, which is to > deal with stuff like this: > > Oops. I misjudged how big /var/log needed to be and now I need to add > 50G to that partition. But it's sda6 and I have up to sda8. Arggghhhhh! > Now I need 5 hour downtime to play 15-pieces with fdisk. > > LVM makes that 2 commands and 12 seconds. Yes, it's a bit complex and > you have to hold the PV/VG/LV model in your head, but it also *fixes* > the issue with rigid MSDOS partition style.
The concept of "Logical Volume Management" is also useful for an encryption/decryption layer on top of an encrypted USB key. lvm2 is a mandatory dependancy for cryptsetup. -- Walter Dnes <[email protected]> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
