Re: Fedora 7 install: DISK failure consideration

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On 6/2/07, Tony Nelson <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
At 2:30 PM -0700 6/2/07, Kam Leo wrote:
 ...
>... LVM rides on top of EXT3

LVM has nothing at all to do with EXT3 or any other filesystem.  It does
not "ride on top of" anything other than DeviceMapper.

Where did you get that little factoid? Here's where I got mine:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-lvm-intro.html


>and adds a level of complexity many users do not need.
 ...

This may be true, but he stated a use for resizing his partitions.  Doing
that with LVM is a bit involved.  Doing that without LVM requires a backup,
reformat, restore.
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