On 2014-01-28 20:51, Anton Aylward wrote:
I never saw LVM as a way to get around small disks. It was more an issue of (a) defer the decision about how big a partition needs to be and (b) grow partitions or (c) create a new partition and move part of one off (e.g. /usr/lib/ruby) then shrink back the original.
Yes, me too. Or to create a bigger space joining two disk.
As I've also said, when I lived solely on a laptop I never filled the 80G drive. Its only when I started saving EVERY mail message and collecting page images as PDFs that I needed a larger drive and still haven't filled a 250G drive. I've upgraded to a 1G drive for other reasons and yes it is 'mostly empty space'.
Wait till you collect movies from the telly. They make them digital nowdays, and they don't sell tapes anymore. :-P -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar)