On 11/8/05, Jeff Dooley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I highly recommend the use of LVM. On every Linux box you ever set up
> > > from now on. You will never have to worry about primary/extended
> > > partitions again.
> >
> > LVM doesn't keep you from running out of space on your disk drive. It
> > does,however, make it easier to shuffle the remaining space from one
> > partition to another.
>
> I was pleasantly surprised to discover that Ubuntu 5.04 provided an
> easy mechanism for setting up LVM during installation. I'm not sure
> how the other distros compare in this regard.
Fedora Core 3 and Core 4 also have LVM setup available during
installation. In fact, if you let the installer do it all for you,
you get one 100MB /boot partition and the rest of your disk is all put
in a single volume group, with two logical volumes for / and swap.
For better or worse.
carl
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