Steve Searle wrote:
> Well if people want to start one, they can form here. Please note
> that the asteriscs around "me" in my original quote were intentional
> in tha tI meant I didn't use it, as I hadn't found it to be
> advantageous to me and my set up. It was not meant idisparage LVM
> or to imply that it wouldn't be useful for other people and their
> needs.
I'll bite. :)
LVM has some definite advantages, but also some limitations -- doesn't
all cool technology? On my laptop I don't use it. I have the 100GB
disc partitioned as follows:
/dev/sda1 1 6 48163+ de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 * 7 1466 11727450 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 1467 2712 10008495 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 2713 11978 74429145 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 2713 11728 72420988+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 11729 11978 2008093+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
I have two ~10GB partitions that I use as OS install partitions. I
usually have 2 Fedora releases at a time. When a new release comes
out I overwrite the older one. I just updated the FC5 install with F7
(a clean install, not an upgrade). so I now have FC6 and F7. When F8
comes out, I'll probably overwrite FC6. That's worked well for me.
I can use things like partimage to clone the old install partition
before doing the new install, that way I can revert to the old one
easily, should the new version prove to be a dud. Partimage doesn't
do LVM I don't think (or it didn't when I started using it).
The larger partition is where I keep all of my personal data. It used
to be /home, but I recently started keeping /home in with the regular
install, since I was in the habit of not mixing the various gui
configurations from different versions anyway. I have other configs
that I want to remain the same (bash, mutt, subversion, vim, ~/bin,
etc). I keep those in a subversion repository. When I update I can
then just check out that stuff in my home dir and have things setup
mostly as I like. (The gui configs notwithstanding. :)
I also have a local file server for backups, music, video and stuff.
On that box I do use LVM. It's been really handy as the space
requirements grew. I just add a new hard drive and add it to the LVM
for /home. That's far nicer to me than having to figure out which
folder inside of /home to which I want to allocate all the new storage
space.
How's that for a lengthy "It depends." ??
> Lets keep this thread clean, people :-)
Uh oh, the ref means business. ;-)
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