On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 4/28/2008, Georges Giralt (georges.giralt@free.fr) wrote:
> > But some people will question the reason you will move from LVM to
> > plain filesystem/partitioning....
>
> Good point... and maybe my reason is not a 'good one'... ;)
>
> My thinking is, since /usr is a critical system partition, it should be
> on the main system drive - which I always set up as a simple 2 drive mirror.
I made that mistake on one system.
> So, I'm now curious how/what other people generally use LVM for?
And now I regret it because I can't use snapshots to take backups
of the system. The only drawback to LVM is that initrd is trickier.
And a good LiveCD makes it possible to recover from boot problems -
even remotely.
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