On Thursday 16 March 2006 15:44, Marcel Hilzinger wrote: > 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.
Yes, I want to emphasize the focus of the discussion: _regular_desktop_. For this type of machine, I believe that one large partition is the easiest, simplest, trouble-free setting. Coincidentally, SUSE Linux is for _regular_desktops_ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
