What are the advantages of LVM?

[Johann Spies]

On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 02:06:39PM +0100, Dick Davies wrote:
> It's good on a laptop (or anywhere space is tight) because you avoid those
> situations where /home is 99% full and /var has 5Gb free on it.
> 
So why not just use one partition  on your laptop?  Then you don't need
LVM.

Regards
Johann
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