I use LVM and multiple partitions on my ThinkPad. It makes it easier to adjust partition sizes when needed. I also have an ext3 partition which contains the Windows "My Documents" folder, making it easy to exchange documents between operating systems. I use ex2IFS to enable Windows access to the ext3 partition.
Do you have convenient tools to use with LVM? Last time I had to deal with it (6 months ago), it was so tiresome that I swore I will not ever touch it again. Now, granted, it started with someone else's stupidity. Some person at Dell set up a drive with a 4G /home as primary partition, and a 496G / set up as LVM. Don't ask me what on earth they were thinking. I ended up with the task of remedying this setup. Now, if it was traditional partitioning, this would have meant an hour backing things up "just in case" and then resizing and moving partitions. Turned out, it was easy to increase a volume size, but painfully difficult to decrease it. GParted wouldn't do it, and neither would any tools included with RHEL. I had limited internet access, but anyway Google search did not produce any obvious tools that could do the job. I ended up having to do manual calculations on cylinder level for all the resizing, and hope to God that I didn't make any errors in my arithmetic. My general conclusion was, yes, I was fixing something that was completely mad to start with. But this madness would have been easier to fix in the bad old traditional system, simply because it has better tools to go with it. So I am not touching LVM until I know of easy tools to use with it that would deal with a wide range of possible configurations, even crazy ones ;-) Myrosia -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org