LVM can be very handy for desktops. If you run out of space on / (or
any other mount that uses LVM) you can attach another disk, add it to
LVM, and expand the filesystem with resize2fs. Easy and quick.
Hugh
Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 23:23:33 -0400 From: Marcel Rieux
<m.z.rieux(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: Preupgrade?? To: Community support
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" On Sat, May 1, 2010 at
3:01 AM, Kevin J. Cummings < cummings(a)kjchome.homeip.net> wrote:
> >
> > On 05/01/2010 01:08 AM, Marcel Rieux wrote:
> >
> > You can always choose to not use LVM when you install Fedora, but you
> > have to be comfortable with selecting the advanced disk partitioning and
> > using the tools provided. Not everyone is.
>
I have selected my disk partitioning for a long time and when new wizardry
comes along, I always wonder how much help it's going to be. In most cases,
for a desktop, here, I'd say "none".
--
Hugh Caley, Linux Administrator
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