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On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 01:06:41PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote |
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> LVM is an excellent solution for what it was designed to do, which is to |
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> deal with stuff like this: |
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> Oops. I misjudged how big /var/log needed to be and now I need to add |
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> 50G to that partition. But it's sda6 and I have up to sda8. Arggghhhhh! |
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> Now I need 5 hour downtime to play 15-pieces with fdisk. |
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> LVM makes that 2 commands and 12 seconds. Yes, it's a bit complex and |
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> you have to hold the PV/VG/LV model in your head, but it also *fixes* |
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> the issue with rigid MSDOS partition style. |
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The concept of "Logical Volume Management" is also useful for an |
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encryption/decryption layer on top of an encrypted USB key. lvm2 is a |
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mandatory dependancy for cryptsetup. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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