Desperation is NEVER welcome at PLUG. I think we have a pretty solid community that is pretty willing and able to help. Even I have reached out with no other alternatives and myself received HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS of dollars worth of free support (Configuring Cisco IOS), so the very least I can do is offer the same.
I'm happy to offer my services and I can come to your home, if it means evangelizing Linux even more! Fell free to call me, 480-478-5865, and we'll see what we can get going for you! --- Thanks, Alexander Sent from my Google Pixel 9 Pro On Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 17:34 Jeffrey Morgan via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Greetings: I apologize in advance that response is not related to your > original post but so far I have not been successful in reaching out to > anyone at P.L.U.G. > I am a senior citizen who used to attend the installfests pre- pandemic. > The problem is that there's no longer a way to reach out to anyone for > assistance. I am a bit cognitively challenged and can't navigate this "Big > Blue Button" way of communicating. Could you please reach out to someone > there that could get in touch with me specifically by phone? It just needs > to be someone that would be willing to come to me to assist. I have a very > old version of Linux Mint that I would like to update. I also installed a > new DVD drive in my IBM T61 laptop and have no knowledge about how to > configure it. My contact number is (480)925-8875 and I'm near I-17 and > Bethany Home Rd. I realize that this is a very out of the norm request but > I'm really desperate. Thanks for any assistance you can provide in getting > someone to help me. > Kind Regards, Jeffrey Morgan > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 3:32 PM Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > >> There is also the ability to use LVM for storage tiering via LVM caching. >> really cool tech to speed up a spinning rust drive. I have presented this >> to the group in the past. >> >> On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss < >> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Tue, 19 Aug 2025 11:20:57 -0700 >>> Mark Phillips via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: >>> >>> > In terms of a major reinstall, should I use LVM or not? >>> >>> No, don't use LVM. Just one more abstraction layer to go wrong and bork >>> all your data. It also adds more learning to our already >>> overburdened minds. From my understanding, LVM bestows three advantages: >>> >>> 1) "Rubber" partitions that can grow and shrink. >>> >>> 2) Partition snapshots. >>> >>> 3) Combining multiple hardware disks into one virtual disk. >>> >>> Now, with the advent of bind mounts, rubber partitions are trivial >>> without LVM or any other abstraction layer. >>> >>> You can get pretty close to the utility of snapshots with rsync. If you >>> want real snapshots, just substitute btrfs instead of ext4. >>> >>> Combining multiple hardware disks is often done for the wrong reason. I >>> wish I had a dime for every person trying to combine a 20 year old 20GB >>> drive, a 10 year old 1TB drive, and a current day 16GB drive, just to >>> add 1020GB to a 16,000,000 GB system. Not worth the added complexity of >>> LVM. >>> >>> A better reason is to add in a new 20TB drive after your 16TB drive >>> became full. But still not good enough. The new drive can be carved up >>> into directories to be bind-mounted to mountpoints on the 20GB drive, >>> so LVM is still not necessary. >>> >>> Maybe there's some RAID related reason to use LVM. I wouldn't know >>> because I don't use RAID. If you don't need high availability or error >>> correction, why use RAID. If you DO need high availability or error >>> correction, then you can take everything I've said with a grain of >>> salt, because your use case is different. >>> >>> SteveT >>> >>> Steve Litt >>> Spring 2023 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful >>> Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> >> -- >> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from >> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. >> >> Stephen >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >
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