Russell Coker <russ...@coker.com.au> writes: > On Thu, 22 Dec 2011, Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-...@web.de> wrote: >> You only ever NEED stuff from outside LVM if you want to remove the VG >> the system is on, which makes sense, or if you screwed up. E.g. when you >> shrink the root LV without having shrunk the filesystem first and need >> to undo that. At that point it becomes usefull to have access to the lvm >> backup data, which is kind of hard if it is on lvm. If one has no >> partition outside of LVM it is a good idea to copy a set of backup >> metadata to an usb stick, just in case. > > If someone is concerned about possible LVM issues affecting the root > filesystem then the easy solution is to just have the root filesystem > (including /usr) outside LVM. The root filesystem isn't one that generally > needs to be resized etc and even when /usr is included it's not particularly > big by today's standards. > > It seems to me that wanting to have / outside LVM but /usr inside LVM is a > fairly obscure corner case. If we are going to have to hack things to work > differently from Fedora (and maybe miss some features along the way) to > support such things then I think we shouldn't bother.
My /usr used to be 2G, then 3G, 4G, 5G and now I'm up to 6G. That /usr doesn't grow over the livetime of a Debian installation is plain not true. I had to grow / once too. But that grows much slower. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87sjkbytsj.fsf@frosties.localnet