Paritions to install Ubuntu

[Tony Arnold]

On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 15:38 -0400, Kent Borg wrote:

> LVM: I need to wrap my head around how one lives with LVM.  I suspect
> it completely changes my ping-ponging between two /-partitions.  I
> would like to find a nice article describing practical living with
> LVM.  (Not all the stuff one *can* do, but what one sensibly *should*
> do.)

One thing you can do with logical volumes is set up a snap shot copy of
volume. You can make the snap shot, do your install and then revert the
volume back from the snapshot. Good thing is that the snap shot only
records changes to the original volume, os it does not have to be as
big.

Regards,
Tony.
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