On 30/08/2017 13:25, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 09:49:58AM -0700, Rich Freeman wrote >> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 8:32 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Another example is LVM. You or I might really need it (debatable now we >>> have ZFS) but the average user has no concept of what it might be, or >>> care. So why do Ubuntu installers shove it in your face as something >>> really cool that you should really really use? Because the author of the >>> installer thinks it's really cool, that's why. >>> >> >> Maybe. >> >> Or maybe because when that computer's hard drive starts getting full >> and you add a new hard drive, if you're using lvm with a few commands >> you can make your /home expand across both drives, while with straight >> partitions that is a lot more work. > > 1) I don't recall having added a hard drive for many years. > > 2) How difficult is it to symlink directories?
Oh that part is easy. One command, ln, with the option -s. Now go and get your grandma to do it, and come tell us what happened. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
