On 24 February 2011 13:28, Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vign...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> - If you've a small 8Go partition at start of the disk followed by one To >>> partition and you want to increase the first one, you're screwed without >>> LVM >>> With LVM, you can just got some free space from anywhere (even another >>> disk) >> >> You can do that with symbolic links if you don't want to resize the >> partitions. > > quick & dirty workaround. hardly a real solution... > and if you have one directory that is too big to move in any of the > available partition, > you are still stuck, whereas with lvm you can shrunk every fs and the > all all of the small > space just freed into the fs that needs it
what's more that just asking for issues eg: - urpmi or rpm starting a rpm transaction that failed in the middle because part of /usr/lib/*/ is in fact on another partition thanks to soft link - system stuff (at least those not running as root) having faillure b/c /home/joe just filled / despite being on a separate mount moint thanks to softlink - ...