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<H1>[Mageia-dev] time to switch from raw partitions to lvm?</H1>
<B>Thierry Vignaud</B>
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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 <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">thierry.vignaud at gmail.com</A>> wrote:
>>><i> - If you've a small 8Go partition at start of the disk followed by one To
</I>>>><i> partition and you want to increase the first one, you're screwed without LVM
</I>>>><i>   With LVM, you can just got some free space from anywhere (even another disk)
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</I>>><i> You can do that with symbolic links if you don't want to resize the
</I>>><i> partitions.
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</I>><i> quick & dirty workaround. hardly a real solution...
</I>><i> and if you have one directory that is too big to move in any of the
</I>><i> available partition,
</I>><i> you are still stuck, whereas with lvm you can shrunk every fs and the
</I>><i> all all of the small
</I>><i> space just freed into the fs that needs it
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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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