[Mageia-dev] time to switch from raw partitions to lvm?

Mon Feb 21 13:39:32 CET 2011

2011/2/21 Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org>:
+> Le lundi 21 février 2011 à 10:56 +0100, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit :
+>> Another part of the discussion may be the fact that a large number of
+>> users are running dual (or multiple) boot systems, keeping the
+>> pre-installed Windows and adding Linux. Others will have Windows and
+>> Mandriva, adding Mageia.
+>>
+>> While LVM may be nice if you are running one OS on one harddisk, it
+>> may be not so easy when running 3 OS on one harddisk. Or different
+>> installations of the same Linux (like stable version and cauldron).
+>
+> I do run lvm on Fedora and mac os x without any trouble. Windows will
+> not support any linux file system more than lvm, and the same goes for
+> os x.
+>
+> For a linux system, a lvm logical volume is just another disk.
+
+Apart from all possible issues, diskdrake needs first to be improved.
+Looking on partitions when you run LVM still needs to have knowledge
+about how it works. And I really don't think people can easily
+understand PV, VG, LV and FS
+
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+> --
+> Michael Scherer
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+Anne
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