On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 11:33 -0700, Steve wrote: > However I do fail to see how LVM would make the task of mounting a > partition on a different volume when the need arises any easier. > Can you elaborate how what you are talking about and what I'm talking > about differ in their approach or end result?
So if he runs out of disk space on his primary drive and adds another, with LVM he can add all that disk space (or some subset of it) to the existing volumes. I did that on the box at my feet actually. I added a 120GB drive to augment /home. With LVM /home just became 30GB + 120GB, and I didn't have to move anything. And if he decides in the future that maybe some of that disk would be better served on another partition, he could shrink the one and reapply the recovered disk to another volume. Going back to my example, I could pull out 10GB from that 120GB I added to /home and put it on /var instead. Corey /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
