On Sunday 24 June 2012 03:03:53 ken did opine:
On 06/23/2012 05:36 PM Keith Roberts wrote:
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IIRC that happened a some years ago with Ubuntu. Ever since that happened I've been wary of the various different custom options available from different Linux distros. I just use the Gparted Live CD to do any partition work. I don't use LVM either yet, so that's not a problem for me now.
Keith,
Years ago I used to create a half dozen partitions from the CLI in an afternoon and move things around. It was even fun to do. But no more. LVMs are so cool... you don't have to worry anymore about how big this and that partition should, never worry about running out of space on a partition, because with LVM it's simple to make a volume bigger. No need to move data around. LVM is great, well worth using. If you've got some spare space on a drive, you should give a try. You won't go back to partitions.
And what do you do when this LVM goes corrupt in about a month? I've had it self destruct on me twice. I hate it when that happens.
Cheers, Gene