Partitioning Question

[Ron Smits]

Nothing wrong with using LVM, allthough it will slow your diskoperations
down a bit. also if the OP indeed goes to another install he would have
to duplicate the lvm setup if he wants to acess files on the old
install.

Ron

On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 22:00 -0400, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> On 10/15/06, wade at wadesmart.com <wade at wadesmart.com> wrote:
> > 10152006 1941 GMT-6
> >
> > Im partitioning a 200GB hard drive. I have usually used ubuntus automated partitions but Im wanting to do a bit more. I have read on the forums about some sizes but I wanted to run this by those who would know:
> >
> > root 8GB     Ubuntu 6.06LTS
> > swap 1GB
> > home 40GB    my files
> > mail 10GB    my email
> > second 40GB  future Edgy install -> will have its /home in this partition
> >
> > Ok. /root has to be primary, and the /second has to be a primary, so can the others be a Extended Partition?
> > Or should I do this differently? or What?
> 
> May I ask why don't use logical volumes (LVM) instead of partitions?
>