Andreas Jaeger wrote:
Fedora and Red Hat will not be for them as well. They go the same road and use LVM by default. I expect others will follow as well, Probably, but probably also some will figure out a way to not alienate those with well established backup routines that include logically segregating various file types. The need to multiboot will probably not escape many users for quite some time, even if it means using various virtual OS installations, another good reason for extra partitions.
For virtual OS'es there is exactly zero reason to use partitions. Disk
access goes through the host OS anyway, which can present almost
anything as virtual disk to the guest OS, so you can just use LVM
without running into interoperability issues. And LVM is so much more
flexible than partitions that I would not even think about not using
LVM. All the headache about how to make partition $foo (sitting between
$bar and $buz without freespace) larger is simply gone.
Even my multiboot systems are fine with only 4 partitions. Linux only,
granted, that makes it a bit easier. 3 different systems, one partition
each for the root filesystem, the 4th partition holds the lvm volume
shared by all installations.
cheers,
Gerd
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Gerd Hoffmann