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+ <H1>[Mageia-dev] time to switch from raw partitions to lvm?</H1>
+ <B>Thierry Vignaud</B>
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+ TITLE="[Mageia-dev] time to switch from raw partitions to lvm?">thierry.vignaud at gmail.com
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+ <I>Thu Feb 24 13:32:01 CET 2011</I>
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+<PRE>On 24 February 2011 13:28, Thierry Vignaud &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">thierry.vignaud at gmail.com</A>&gt; wrote:
+&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> - If you've a small 8Go partition at start of the disk followed by one To
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> partition and you want to increase the first one, you're screwed without LVM
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> &#160; With LVM, you can just got some free space from anywhere (even another disk)
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> You can do that with symbolic links if you don't want to resize the
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> partitions.
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+</I>&gt;<i> quick &amp; dirty workaround. hardly a real solution...
+</I>&gt;<i> and if you have one directory that is too big to move in any of the
+</I>&gt;<i> available partition,
+</I>&gt;<i> you are still stuck, whereas with lvm you can shrunk every fs and the
+</I>&gt;<i> all all of the small
+</I>&gt;<i> space just freed into the fs that needs it
+</I>
+what's more that just asking for issues eg:
+
+- urpmi or rpm starting a rpm transaction that failed in the middle because
+ part of /usr/lib/*/ is in fact on another partition thanks to soft link
+- system stuff (at least those not running as root) having faillure
+b/c /home/joe
+ just filled / despite being on a separate mount moint thanks to softlink
+- ...
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