[SATLUG] Partitioning with LVM: or not

[Ed Coates]

On 1/21/07, Frank Huddleston <fhuddles at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Fellows,
>
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> So I'm asking a number of things here:
> 1) Given the single-disk laptop situation, is it worth it to partition?
> 2) If so, can LVM be used effectively to make the partitioning more
> flexible?
> 3) If so, how?
> 4) How would one shrink the root LVM logical volume size?
>
> Thanks a bunch,
>
> Frank Huddleston
>
Frank,

LVM comes into its own when used with more than one disk.  You can
logically combine them into one disk and then assign it to a logical
volume.  You create logical volumes and use them as mount points for
your partition.

With only one disk, and no intentions of adding any more, I wouldn't
(and this is only me) use lvm at all.  I think that it would just do
to partition the disk and not worry about lvm.

Ed