begin quoting Neil Schneider as of Sat, May 07, 2005 at 12:15:36AM -0700: [snip] > partition and everything else is on LVM called /dev/system. The > advantage to LVM is that if /home is getting to full, and /usr/local > is too big, you can lvreduce /usr/local and lvextend /home to adjust. > With standard partitioning this requires a lot of swapping of data, > until you get it right, and you usually need an extra partition to > swap data to, or you reinstall again. You can also, with LVM add > another drive, and then vgextend and lvextd to add that drive to your > logical volume. > > It's really cool, you should give it a try!
LVM handles the partitions... _and_ the filesystems? All filesystems, or just some of 'em? -Stewart "Is LVM available on SPARC Linuxes yet?" Stremler
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