Booting - Enterprise Volume Management System

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

> > unmount? Have you actually read the howto?
>
> Perhaps you should try reading it.
>
> "  ext2/ext3
>
> Unless you have patched your kernel with the ext2online patch it is necessary to
> unmount the file system before resizing it."

C'mon! This was written in the stone age. You *can* grow an ext2/ext3
filesystem using ext2online with no patches at all. Vanilla kernels
have allowed this since ages.

> You don't think there are any disadvantages of one big partition?  Why even
> bother with LVM on a single disk if you can just make one big partition?

Who's talking about one big partition? Using LVM allows using many
volumes (one for /usr, one for /var, one for /tmp, one for /opt, ...)
without suffering the limits of partitions: you can have as many
volumes as you like, you can use LVM stripping (similar to RAID-0),
you can extend your volumes to several disks, and so on. LVM is
extremely useful.