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<H1>[Mageia-dev] time to switch from raw partitions to lvm?</H1>
<B>Olivier Thauvin</B>
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<I>Mon Feb 21 10:10:20 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>* P. Christeas (<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">p_christ at hol.gr</A>) wrote:
><i> On Sunday 20 February 2011, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
</I>><i> > Hi
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</I>><i> > What do you think about switching from defaulting to installing on raw
</I>><i> > partitions to lvm
</I>><i> > installing on LVs like fedora does ?
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</I>><i> I vote against that. (=to be enabled by default)
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</I>><i> LVM is fine for "enterprise" setups, or better, installations where the
</I>><i> (expert) admin will need to resize/move partitions in the future. But, for
</I>><i> simple machines/users, the complexity of having LVM is IMHO not worth it.
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</I>><i> (remember also that on all *nix OSes, you can just add a partition, move some
</I>><i> files like /usr/share/doc into it and then mount it on /usr/share/doc, thus
</I>><i> freeing /usr of some space. No LVM, no virtualization, no ZFS required)
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I mostly agree, but the snapshot feature can really be an advantage...
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Olivier Thauvin
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