> I took from this that LVM is just a bomb > waiting to go off and have removed it from all my > boxes, and > periodically rant here to a perfect disinterest from > anyone capable to > change it that LVM should NOT be on by default for > installs. I agree. I got into LVM through fc4 defaults. It has really not been a problem, but I have worried about it because I have found the documentation terse to the point of being opaque. However, I recently added a bigger disk and thought to add some more space to my LVM / partition, which is supposed to be the advantage of LVM. It was really painful I ran "man lvm" and it just dumped a bunch of tools infront of me with no guide to how to use them. I did get it figured out finally. Now I am getting ready to "yum upgrade" and it seems like LVM may help there. After that, I want to get rid of LVM. Is there a guide somewhere on how to do that? One of my worries is; if I copy my setup ( /) onto a new ext3 partition, will the new one then be an LVM setup? Will it copy all the confog files (wherever they are?) or do I have to delete some? If I leave /dev behind, is that enough to get rid of LVM? That probably gives you a clew as to my level of understanding of LVM. I don't think I am a dunce and I have spent many hours trying to upgrade my grasp of this system with no luck so I want to get it gone.
