Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Thu 24th Jul 2008 21:12 UTC, submitted by sharkscott
The GNU/Linux operating system is blessed to have sound partition management tools like GParted which are very easy to use. However, when it comes to the management of 'virtual partitions' known as volumes, things are quite different. There is Linux Volume Management, or LVM for short, however it can only really be used from the command line.
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Member since:2008-03-17
How about you read the article and see the mess he got himself into?
In this particular case having a gui would very much help someone not make the mistakes this guy made. At this point in time I'm still too scared to use LVM...
judging by the experience the write of the article had, it turns out my cowardice is justified.
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by FishB8 on Thu 24th Jul 2008 22:19
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No GUI would have prevented this "mess". He kept changing the layout and setup of his partitioning / volume / RAID scheme.
If you want to do something like this (which in this case was utterly pointless beyond a learning exercise) you plan it out ahead of time and start from scratch.
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by mieses on Fri 25th Jul 2008 00:06
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by segedunum on Fri 25th Jul 2008 09:35
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and because LVM can only be really used from commandline, its a mess...
how nice to know...