On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 09:55:41PM +0200, Richard Bos wrote:
The LVM will most likely be on 1 disk (for home systems). The the early days disk were small and than LVM was used to obtain bigger file systems. Nowadays disks are big enough and LVM is used for convenience to be able to resize partition. 1 disadvantage by introducing LVM is another layer that can break. I use LVM as well, and when I have to do something with it, I always have to look up the commands as I never remember these....
I have 4 HD's at this moment and place for 2 more. 1 will always be seperate (hda) for tests, the others I would like to have as a LVM, but I want to know the risks beforehand. I do not see the use of an LVM per HD. Say I have 1 HD that is /home. What would I gain if I use LVM only on that drive. I have no interest in making it smaller and I can't make it bigger.
Many people will have something like /music or /Pr0n that they share with otheres and thus not place it in /home To me it is not completely clear where in fhs you should place user data that you share with others. If Alice, Ben and Carl want to listen to music each of them has, where should you place that? `man hier` tells me that /usr should be read only. So you can't add music without root permission. /home is for the users and I do not want others snooping in my directory. I see nothing that is specificaly to share data.
Well call it /home/share, /home/4allgoodpeople, /home/4all, etc
I am aware that you can place it anywhere. If there is no fixed place, you will get in trouble. Many places use the first letter and the last name of a person as a login. And suddenly there is 'Simon Hare' starting for you. I also understand that you then need to give him another login. I am very much aware that you can palce it anywhere you like. I would just think that it would be solved from within fhs. A fixed place to put shared data that you are able to edit (if you have the proper rights). As Linux is a multiuser system, I doubt that I am the first person who ever thought of that. It just seems logical to have a standard for it, even if it is in /home. All the rest is having a standard. -- houghi http://houghi.org http://www.plainfaqs.org/linux/ http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
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