On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 09:13:07 -0600, Dale wrote:

> I have /boot on a plain ext2 partition, root is also on a
> plain ext4 partition.  Everything else, /home, /usr, /var etc is on
> LVM.

> If I hadn't had a separate /usr, I would have had to move things around
> to grow /usr.  I've done that in the past and got very tired of doing it
> the hard way.  With LVM, it's just a few commands and is done while in
> use even.  I don't even have to logout, reboot or anything.  That's a
> very good reason for having /usr separate from /. 

I'd say it's more a very good reason to put / on LVM too. I used to use a
separate /usr but found no real benefit so I now leave it as part of /.


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Neil Bothwick

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