On 07/29/2010 10:57 PM, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Ron Blizzard<rb4centos at 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). > You can use LVM for taking snapshots as well (very useful if you want to quiesce databases for the shortest possible time for backups) . And you can use LVM to migrate data from an old drive to a new one or even to *shrink* a partition. I've never found LVM to 'be a pain'. 99% of the time it's invisible, and 1% of the time it's indispensable. -- Benjamin Franz