LVMs and "Real" Partitions (was Re: Preupgrade F11 ---> F12 ?)

[Patrick Bartek]

--- On Tue, 7/27/10, Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:

> Patrick Bartek wrote:

> > [snip]
> > I never could see any advantage to LVMs (over "real"
> partitions) other than being able to resize them while they
> are mounted.
> > 
> They do make it easy to move stuff to new hardware, that
> can be important as a 
> time saving if you have to do it often.

Easier than using cp or dd or rsync, etc.?  How much easier can it get?

I guess it all depends on what you're accustomed to.

B