Re: [CentOS] When should LVM be used?

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Ron Blizzard rb4centos@gmail.com wrote:

Is there any reason to use LVM on a personal desktop install of CentOS? It seems to me, for my purposes, that LVM is just a pain in the neck -- although I've always just let CentOS set it up during the install in the past.  I would like to be able to use parted to resize partitions when I want to, and also I'd like Vector Linux to be able to read and write data to the CentOS partition. Would I be missing something by not installing LVM, or is this mostly for server purposes anyhow?

You don't need LVM if you don't plan to expand the filesystem (or a particular mount point).