> It's transparent unless it breaks. I do the same as you advise here, > throw out LVM at install time. All the machines here are laptops with > only Fedora as the bootable OS, and everything but /boot in one / > partition, so LVM is a completely senseless default. LVM is great.. for big server boxes with many users and unknown usage requirements. I turn it off. I'd rather a single disk was straight partitions (eg a laptop) and anything else gets two disks with striped MD0 swap and mirrored MD1 file systems. IDE disks are just too unreliable for anything but mirroring
