[CentOS] LVM hatred, was Re: /boot on a separate partition?

[Robert Heller]

At Thu, 25 Jun 2015 13:18:04 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:

> 
> Robert Heller wrote:
> > At Thu, 25 Jun 2015 11:03:18 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> > wrote:
> >> On Wed, June 24, 2015 16:11, Chuck Campbell wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Is there an easy to follow "howto" for normal LVM administration
> >> > tasks. I get tired of googling every-time I have to do something
> >> > I don't remember how to do regarding LVM, so I usually just
> >> > don't bother with it at all.
> >> >
> >> > I believe it has some benefit for my use cases, but I've been
> >> > reticent to use it, since the last time I got LVM problems, I
> >> > lost everything on the volume, and had to restore from backups
> >> > anyway. I suspect I shot myself in the foot, but I
> >> > still don't know for sure.
> >>
> >> At the risk of some ridicule I suggest that you look at installing
> >> Webmin.  It is a web based system administration tool that I find
> >> invaluable.  The two most common complaints I encounter when I discuss
> >> its merits are 'security' and 'transparency'.
> <snip>
> > HA!  You only really need to learn *one* command: the man command.  The
> > man provides 'enlightenment' for all other commands:
> >
> > man vgdisplay
> > man lvdisplay
> > man lvcreate
> > man lvextend
> > man lvresize
> > man lvreduce
> > man lvremove
> > man e2fsck
> > man resize2fs
> <snip>
> 
> You missed one: man man.

It is 'presumed' that one has learned the man command itself and never ever 
need to do a 'man man' :-).  From there all other knowledge flows...

> 
>         mark
> 
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