Disclosure: I am an experienced Sys Admin and Linux Architect. I've got to say that confusion around LVM causes a lot of stress. It's not for nothing that LVM has been included in the default disk layout of several Linux distros for a while now.
The flexibility that LVM provides you is unmatched compared to placing ext3/4 partitions on raw disk partitions. Keeping some spare space in reserve and being able to allocate it to the right partitions on my disk is an absolute lifesaver. I use a separate partition for /home and then another one for /home/music where my library lives. This is because more than once I've filled /home due to downloads in my own directory. The instruction set of LVM is not very difficult to get around. Extending Logical Volumes is the main activity, but I have also migrated data between disks and taken old disks comlpetely out of my LVM setup. This has always been done online. No downtime. Until BTRFS matures a bit more and provides Raid 5 support and better snapshotting, I'll be using LVM. Don't mean this to be a lecture, but you shouldn't write off LVM just because you don't understand it. It's the most powerful tool in our corporate Linux disk infrastructure for a reason. Online changes equals reduced downtime. Cheers Duncan -- drunkahol ------------------------------------------------------------------------ drunkahol's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17854 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89504 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
