On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 10:08 -0400, James Knott wrote:
Ken Schneider wrote:
You copy back to home the things you need, your bookmarks, mail etc., allowing you to start with as little baggage from the old system as is necessary in the new system. You also end up with more usable space because there is no need to guess as to how much space you need. I never run with more than three main partitions small /boot, swap and the rest to /. I have an extra drive dedicated for storage that never gets touched during install.
With logical volumes, you can assign only as much space as you need
And how much is that at the start? It is only a guess on your part depending on how much software you load. With my setup there is no guess, 50M for /boot 1G for swap all the rest for users and programs. LVM was created because, at the time, disks were -expensive- and it was a means of having more disk space available for a single partition. I think some people today are getting the false impression that LVM carries some sort of fail over which it does not. LVM is like a chain, it is no stronger that it's weakest link. In the case of LVM it is the disk that is on the verge of failing. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com