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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