Fedora 7 install: DISK failure consideration

[Tony Nelson]

At 2:30 PM -0700 6/2/07, Kam Leo wrote:
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>... LVM rides on top of EXT3

LVM has nothing at all to do with EXT3 or any other filesystem.  It does
not "ride on top of" anything other than DeviceMapper.

>and adds a level of complexity many users do not need.
 ...

This may be true, but he stated a use for resizing his partitions.  Doing
that with LVM is a bit involved.  Doing that without LVM requires a backup,
reformat, restore.
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