Am Donnerstag, 16. März 2006 14:35 schrieb Pascal Bleser: > Silviu Marin-Caea wrote: > > On Thursday 16 March 2006 14:54, Pascal Bleser wrote: > >> Silviu Marin-Caea wrote: > > ... > > >> How often do I see people in IRC asking for a way to add disk space to > >> their Linux partition. Well, if it hasn't been virtualized with LVM in > >> the first place > > > > Well, if all they had was one large partition, there would be no such > > question. Simple solves it. > > No, with LVM you could add another disk and "merge" it into a single > partition through the LV layer.
Right, but LVM makes many problems for beginners. It's hard to start a system with LVM (e.g from CD) if the bootloader is broken. It's even harder if you want to have encrypted filesystems. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Marcel Hilzinger Linux New Media AG Süskindstr. 4 D-81929 München Tel: +49 (89) 99 34 11 0 Fax: +49 (89) 99 34 11 99 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
