Partitioning Question

[Ron Smits]

On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 10:22 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:

> I imagine for normal desktop office style use, most users would not
> notice the difference.
> 

They won't the linux kernel is very good at spacing out the io requests.
Even playing a movie and downloading works like a charm. So for normal
use it will be fine.

> > > What would he have to do? If you take a set of disks that comprise a
> > > volume group to a different machine, don't the VGs and LVs just appear
> > > to the system and they need mounting?
> > 
> > I have not played with lvm in about a year. So if they have reached that
> > level of easyness, I should look into it again.
> 
> I don't know if they have, I was just asking!
> 

It did not use to, first of all when I was using it there was no nice
uptodate gui. I used a swing java frontend that was no longer supported.
If you are not used in working with logical volumes, it will be quite
daunting to set it up. 

It did not use to be the case that you could just start using them with
a different install as several files needed to be updated before they
could run. Mind you I am talking about the time you had to hack the boot
scripts of slackware to make it all happen.

Ron