On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 01:09 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > I've never had a real need for an LVM. When I replace my machine every 3 > years, I buy a bigger disk and make bigger partitions. It's seldom that I'm > really squeezed for space in any partition.
Most of the time I have had a need to resize a partition has been for VMs. LVM is also nice for creating/deleting partitions on the fly. Where normally you would have to reboot and otherwise. Which can be used to create temporary or permanent partitions for a variety of reasons. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
