Re: What is the consensus on the best partition scheme and size?/Keeping home separate

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Subject: Re: What is the consensus on the best partition scheme and size?/Keeping home separate
From: Andy Green <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:18:52 +0100
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Robert P. J. Day wrote:

  by the way, is there any reason *not* to encourage folks to use LVM
rather than simple primary/extended/logical partitions?

If the LVM header area in front of the actual filesystem gets damaged,it ain't pretty.


-Andy

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