Les wrote:
Hi, Jim,
I use LVM for my home disk. I chose it intentionally because it
will allow me to modify and add space to the directory or even add disks
should that become desirable. As my interests are AI, 3d graphics ,
photos and other graphics, space is the one really big driver for me. I
am therefore quite curious why you don't recommend LVM for /home?
Regards,
Les H
I don't want my data stuck within a medium which is not easily
accessible. With LVM, I had an older installation that was all within an
LVM. I recovered information after some work from the LVM. It was a lot
tougher than simply mounting the /home partition though. On the other
hand, I don't care much if I loose the application and configuration
data since most suggest wiping out everything system related and
maintaining /home. I guess it is a personal choice whether to want to
deal with LVM. I do label the LVM volumes uniquely instead of allowing
the auto partitioning that the installer uses.
For the Vista volume. I believe the best setup would be for /dev/sda1 as
a rescue partition, /dev/sda2 as the Vista restore partition, /dev/sda3
as the Vista OS partition and the rest of the volume as /dev/sda4
extended. Once that was setup, adding /dev/sda5 as a boot partition and
then making /dev/sda6 as an LVM with all of the other swap and
filesystam types within the LVM. Personally, I would still make a home
partition as /dev/sda5 and then use the rest of the disk as /dev/sda6
within an LVM. LVM is great if you are comfortable managing the volumes.
I still am not too familiar with Physical Volume and Logical volumes
using lvm2.
Jim
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"We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on
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