On Friday 24 June 2005 16:04, Paul W. Frields wrote: >On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 12:09 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Friday 24 June 2005 08:36, Matthew Miller wrote: [...] >Plainly put, LVM is an enabling technology that underlies your > actual file system choices. You still choose ext3 "partitions," > but now each of those partitions, instead of being defined on the > disk itself in the partition tables, is sliced out of the total > space in a LVM VG. Although your fstab will look different, to > everything in user space, like tar, ls, etc., /home/me/myfile is > accessed the same way. Clear as mud? Approximately :-) What you are saying is that tar isn't going to care and it will work 'as usual', right? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list