On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 12:03 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > I should probably mention that I am not a big LVM fan.
I am not a big fan of having LVM be the default on a home desktop or laptop install. IMHO, in those cases it adds unneeded complexity. But it has a lot of uses on big servers. Being able to keep some spare disk space around and add it to whatever volume needs it (without having to dump, repartition, and restore) has saved my butt several times. I also like being able to use snapshots for backups; allows a clean backup to be taken without having to take the machine out of service (but I found out the hard way that snapshots only work if you have some free space left in the volume group; if you have --Greg -- users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
