Query about parasitic firefox file

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Thu Mar 8 13:26:42 UTC 2018


On 8 March 2018 at 14:00, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> I must say that to me this looks like a system in dire need of being
> converted to LVM, if the many filesystems can't be consolidated.  It's
> then very much easier to extend, rearrange, and so on.  (Shrinking a
> single filesystem is still often a slow process, but that's up to the
> filesystem.)

Well, yes, in a way, but 2 questions...

[1] AFAIK it is not possible to dual-boot with Windows if the disk is
partitioned with LVM.

[2] Is it possible to do an in-place conversion? I've read conflicting
reports, of home-grown tools and so on, but it sounds tricky and
possibly dangerous...

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