Avoiding LVM -

[Mateusz Marzantowicz]

On 02.04.2013 20:57, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
> Am 02.04.2013 20:52, schrieb Tom Horsley:
>> On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:39:06 -0400
>> Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
>>
>>> What I need is an example of a simple directory tree with the proper 
>>> sizes. 
>> What is wrong with one partition named / on whole disk? Everything
>> has room to grow then :-)
> it is idiotic in the case of a damaged OS
> you have to backup your data before re-isntall
>
> it is idiotic in case of /boot not seperated for
> hwatever FS-changes, not so long ago ext4 was new
> and it was no problem to convert the rootfs and
> data parttions to ext4 but /boot needed to stay at ext3
>
> at least you should seperate /boot, sysroot and your data
> not only on Linux, on Windows it was also idiotic do save
> your data at c:\ and blindl use this often chossed pre-setup
> of most vendors

It really depends on your use case. It might be idiotic to recommend
something to all people without knowing their use case. I agree that for
some deployments separate root and data partition is must have but not
for all. I have a lot of qemu/kvm images that for simplicity only have
two partitions (root and swap) or sometimes root only.

About avoiding LVM... it's like avoiding SELinux to minimize potential
problems - it becomes an obsession for some admins. If you have well
established partition layout and don't change it for lifetime of your OS
- don't go with LVM. But for dual boot installs and rapid disk layout
changes LVM is very valuable.


Mateusz Marzantowicz