On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 09:55:41PM +0200, Richard Bos wrote:
> The LVM will most likely be on 1 disk (for home systems).  The the early days 
> disk were small and than LVM was used to obtain bigger file systems.  
> Nowadays disks are big enough and LVM is used for convenience to be able to 
> resize partition.  1 disadvantage by introducing LVM is another layer that 
> can break.  I use LVM as well, and when I have to do something with it, I 
> always have to look up the commands as I never remember these....

I have 4 HD's at this moment and place for 2 more. 1 will always be
seperate (hda) for tests, the others I would like to have as a LVM, but I
want to know the risks beforehand. I do not see the use of an LVM per HD.
Say I have 1 HD that is /home. What would I gain if I use LVM only on that
drive. I have no interest in making it smaller and I can't make it bigger.

> > Many people will have something like /music or /Pr0n that they share with
> > otheres and thus not place it in /home
> > To me it is not completely clear where in fhs you should place user data
> > that you share with others. If Alice, Ben and Carl want to listen to music
> > each of them has, where should you place that? `man hier` tells me that
> > /usr should be read only. So you can't add music without root permission.
> > /home is for the users and I do not want others snooping in my directory.
> > I see nothing that is specificaly to share data.
> 
> Well call it /home/share, /home/4allgoodpeople, /home/4all, etc

I am aware that you can place it anywhere. If there is no fixed place, you
will get in trouble. Many places use the first letter and the last name of
a person as a login. And suddenly there is 'Simon Hare' starting for you.
I also understand that you then need to give him another login.

I am very much aware that you can palce it anywhere you like. I would just
think that it would be solved from within fhs. A fixed place to put shared
data that you are able to edit (if you have the proper rights). As Linux
is a multiuser system, I doubt that I am the first person who ever thought
of that. It just seems logical to have a standard for it, even if it is in
/home. All the rest is having a standard.
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