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

+ Thierry Vignaud + thierry.vignaud at gmail.com +
+ Thu Feb 24 13:32:01 CET 2011 +

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On 24 February 2011 13:28, Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> wrote:
+>>> - If you've a small 8Go partition at start of the disk followed by one To
+>>>  partition and you want to increase the first one, you're screwed without LVM
+>>>   With LVM, you can just got some free space from anywhere (even another disk)
+>>
+>> You can do that with symbolic links if you don't want to resize the
+>> partitions.
+>
+> quick & dirty workaround. hardly a real solution...
+> and if you have one directory that is too big to move in any of the
+> available partition,
+> you are still stuck, whereas with lvm you can shrunk every fs and the
+> all all of the small
+> space just freed into the fs that needs it
+
+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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