LVM [WAS Re: Yum cache memory space -]

[Steven Stern]

On 09/06/2012 01:47 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 09/06/2012 11:23 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> For which I am deeply grateful. Most of the time LVM is fine, even
>> preferred, but some times I really "want it my way" and now that's easy.
> 
> Personally, I find LVM to be a great solution looking for a problem.  I
> only have one LVM partition, and that's only because I forgot to turn it
> off when I created it.  Of course, I'm only using Fedora for my home
> computer, and I can see how useful it can be in a production
> environment.  Maybe what we need is for anaconda to ask if this is a
> home or production installation, and have LVM default to off for home,
> on for production?

If it were simple then LVM would be wonderful.  If, on detecting a new
drive, the system would say "Hey, you have a new drive. Do you want me
to extend one or more existing partitions there?", it would be workable.
But it's not that easy.


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-- Steve