The case against LVM

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Mike McCarty wrote:

> Karl Larsen wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> >     There are issues about how you partition a giant hard drive
> > like that. I forget just how many partitions your allowed but it
> > is small compared to the size. I guess your the IT expert and you
> > have REAL Experience to back your support for LVM.
>
> Umm, AIUI the standard way of partitioning drives has no limit on
> the number of extended partitions one may create.

?????.  AIUI, a standard PC hard drive can have at most 4 primary
partitions, only one of which can be an extended partition.  has that
changed?

rday
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