On 05/03/2010 10:58 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: > On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Kevin J. Cummings > <cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > That's not what I said. I said I've been using Fedora and RedHat long > before things like LVM existed. I'm more comfortable without them at > times, especially after I got burned by a disk failure while using LVM. > > > Oops! Disk failures happen. You had problems doing a restore? I didn't have a *current* backup to restore from (what I had was 5-6 months old), but since I was replacing a disk, I took the opportunity to punt LVM and repartition. I think I lost 1 partition with a collection of MPEGs that wasn't backed up (even though there were bits and pieces of it on the remaining disk in a partial LV). > Whatever the case may be, it seems to me LVM shouldn't be thrown at > newbies for the desktop. I certainly will keep away from it as much as I > can. I agree. > > You decide what you are willing to live with > > > I, as most desktop users, am willing to live with as little problems as > possible. :) I don't believe LVM is part of this. I am willing to live with more than most users, certainly more than most newbies. Given that I've been running a version of Linux on my primary desktop computer since version 0.12 sometime back in 1993. B^) I still have the 5 1/2" floppy with it around here somewhere.... -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines