RE: LVM or not

2003-03-25 Thread James Francis
Jon Haugsand wrote: > * Ian Dobson >> what is the benefit of LVM on say an 80 GB drive rather than just >> giving 78GB to / ? > > 1. Whenever you buy a new disk so you have 160 GB, you can easily > increase any file system. > > 2. Whenever you want to reinstall, you can scratch / and /usr, whil

Re: LVM or not

2003-03-25 Thread Jon Haugsand
* Ian Dobson > what is the benefit of LVM on say an 80 GB drive rather than just giving > 78GB to / ? 1. Whenever you buy a new disk so you have 160 GB, you can easily increase any file system. 2. Whenever you want to reinstall, you can scratch / and /usr, while you keep the /home and /usr/local