Dr. Scott S. Jones wrote: > Since I want to do the best thing here, I have poked around and find that > lvm2 is installed, but not yet setup on my system. Can I set up lvm2 now, > with my system in place as is, and then use it to rearrange things? I am > reading the documentation and howto, but it's still a bit fuzzy...
Personally, I like Nicholas' suggestion a lot more. LVM is great for situations where rebooting is a bad thing (servers, for example), but on a desktop, rebooting doesn't matter and LVM adds unnecessary complexity. It's better to lazily make a filesystem that spans the whole disk, then use the time you would have spent learning and maintaining LVM to instead make regular backups. Shane /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
