Partitioning Question

[Tony Arnold]

Ron,

On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 18:32 +0200, Ron Smits wrote:

> 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. 

Ah! A good GUI for LVM would be really nice! And yes, there is learning
curve to go through.

> 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.

I've no idea how LVM2 works. Maybe I should try booting a live CD on one
of my machines with LVs and see they can be seen. That'll keep me quiet
for an hour or so this evening!

Regards,
Tony.
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