Am 21. Sep, 2007 schw�tzte Matt Graham so:
Anybody have an opinion on using LVM partitions?LVM is great if A) you've read the LVM-HOWTO and understand it B) you don't need to read or write the disks on a non-Linux machine. A is important because there are a number of gotchas with the PV/VG/LV/filesystem resizing that are not immediately obvious. And it's *much* easier to expand PVs, VGs, LVs, and filesystems than it is to shrink them, so don't make 99% of the disk a PV unless you are sure you won't need any normal partitions. And make sure you've made your ext3 filesystems with reserved blocks in the GDT if you ever plan on expanding them! Check it with mke2fs -n first; older versions of e2fsprogs didn't allocate spare GDT space unless you told them to.
Didn't know about the ext3 gotcha. Thanks for the heads up.
B is important because right now, nothing but Linux can grok LVM. This is why my laptop doesn't use LVM; occasionally I have to run 'Doze for work.
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