Feedback Requested

Michael A. Peters mpeters at mac.com
Sun May 29 14:44:46 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 14:33 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am So, den 29.05.2005 schrieb Justin Zygmont um 12:51:
> 
> > After experimenting with LVM, I felt that it's still got a lot of 
> > rough edges.  for one, the filesystem size has to be adjusted in addition
> > to the LVM, plus sveral other things, if you are not 100% sure of what 
> > you are doing it's easy to trash your system.  It's gtting better but 
> > still needs work.
> 
> I don't see your argument. With all partitioning: if you are not sure
> what you do it is always easy to destroy data.
> LVM is well documented and easy enough to use.

I have not tried it - but I will be adding a drive soon to one of my
boxes following this procedure:

http://fedoranews.org/contributors/andrew_donoho/lvm/

The plan is to

a) back up data
b) boot off of emergency boot CD
c) follow instructions

Looks pretty straight forward to me




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