Resize Partition??

[Hugh Crissman]

* Charles Mauch <cmauch at taclug.org> [2005-07-14 07:37:09]:

> It's not that tough if you follow the concepts.  Your no longer
> dealing with only partitions and filesystems, but you have a
> couple of other concepts introduced which complicate things a
> bit.
> 
> It really is worth the time spent getting it running though.
> You may spend quite a bit of time upfront figuring it out, but a
> year or two down the road when you need more hard disk space,
> and can simply slap another hard disk in and extend your
> multimedia "partition" to encompass both drives - you'll love it
> ;)
> 
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Yea, the technology sounds great. What scared me was the part about
making / part of LVM. There was some details that I can't recall about
not being able to boot the system if you screw that up. Sounded pretty
unreliable. Almost like you are adding another point of failure.

Hugh