I tend to use somewhat older computers and older, smaller (and cheaper--sometimes free!) hard drives. As a result, I end up with 2 or more hard drives in any given machine. I've been manually partitioning and usually making / the mount point for smaller of the disks, /home the mount point for the larger (single user system, btw). I suppose /usr might be a good mount point for a third disk. Be that as it may, I've recently looked into LVM (logical volume management) and wondered whether it might not be a better option for setting up my system. As I understand about the way it works, I would not run into problems such as I might have with my former scheme--for example running out of room on / (never happened before, but who knows). With all disks being used as one large filesystem under LVM--if that is, indeed, the way it works--directories can increase to whatever size disk total allows. So, a couple of questions in closing: have I understood correctly how LVM works and what it does? Does it sound like a good solution for my scenario? Is there any performance hit involved in using it as over against a traditional partitioning scheme? Any other comments on, criticisms, praises of LVM? Gotchas? Thanks for any feedback on this.
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