Re: Hibernate with LVM Swap

["Dariusz J. Garbowski" <thuforuk yahoo co uk>]

On 06/13/2006 07:47 PM, Peter Jones wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 19:51 -0600, Lamont R. Peterson wrote:
>
> > So, Peter, are you saying that using up 3 partitions is so bad compared to 2 
> > that we should be concerned about it?
>
> Yes, absolutely.  That being said, the economy of partitions themselves
> isn't the only advantage.  What if you wanted to make your swap device
> *smaller*, and give the freed space up to some already extant
> filesystem?  If it's not on LVM, you really can't do that.
>
> Really, it's this simple: if you're going to have LVM for anything, you
> want to use it wherever it's possible on your persistently attached
> storage.  For us, right now, that means everything except /boot .
>
> > Sorry, this is a non-starter argument to me.
>
> Consider dual booting and other such scenarios.

Still, not a big deal. Some 6 or 7 years ago a friend of mine set his 
machine (desktop PC) up for quad-booting: Linux, Windows, NetWare and 
SCO Unix. No problem if you know how. No LVM, just plain partitions...

Isn't this discussion going OT for this list?

Regards,
Dariusz




		
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