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On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 09:49:58AM -0700, Rich Freeman wrote |
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> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 8:32 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Another example is LVM. You or I might really need it (debatable now we |
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> > have ZFS) but the average user has no concept of what it might be, or |
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> > care. So why do Ubuntu installers shove it in your face as something |
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> > really cool that you should really really use? Because the author of the |
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> > installer thinks it's really cool, that's why. |
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> Maybe. |
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> Or maybe because when that computer's hard drive starts getting full |
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> and you add a new hard drive, if you're using lvm with a few commands |
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> you can make your /home expand across both drives, while with straight |
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> partitions that is a lot more work. |
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1) I don't recall having added a hard drive for many years. |
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2) How difficult is it to symlink directories? |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |