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I use LVM at every opportunity. I also frequently use it in
conjunction with an encrypted HD/partition (on my personal
computers) thusly:<br>
<br>
HD<br>
|<br>
boot partition<br>
|<br>
LUKS encryption<br>
|<br>
LV with swap/root/home<br>
<br>
Been doing that for years. Never had a problem.<br>
<br>
Never had a problem with just LVM at work.<br>
<br>
The science on LVM is settled. It is time for LVM deniers to face
reality.<br>
<br>
OTOH, I have lately been questioning the usefulness of that extra
layer of complexity.<br>
<br>
I could do the exact same thing thus: <br>
<br>
HD<br>
|<br>
boot partition<br>
|<br>
LUKS encryption<br>
|<br>
ext (or what have you) with a swap <i>file</i>.<br>
<br>
You would lose EASY re-size ability (ie, shrink partition foo, grow
partition bar, room problem solved, assuming bar was not used much
and foo only needed the extra room bar had). BUT (<- large but)
I have NEVER had to do that with my personal machines. I also never
like to carve them up into seperate /, /home, /var, etc as that is
of small value for a personal computer. It has always been easier
to make a / and put home in there. It makes sizing guesses easier
to deal with. yeah, LVM is cool, but on a personal level, I have
never been able to take advantage of it, but I have had to take the
time and resources (even though they are minimal, they are real) to
run LVM. Before this thread started, I started to ask "why?".<br>
<br>
As for the back ups, back up /home on an external drive using
rsync. Restore using rsync after I re-size with either a live cd or
a re-install. Normally done when I get tired of Fedora and
re-install ubunut/debian/sabayon/whatever until I want to try Fedora
again.<br>
<br>
none of the above comes into play on work servers. The science on
LVM is settled then. resizing with LVM has saved me many, many
times from a backup/restore, even on vms (add a disk, LVM grow the
problem file system). Ugly, but expedient. keep it limping until
you can get rid of the "one off" mulit-disk vm with a proper size vm
disk IAW work schedules.<br>
<br>
HTH and my tongue in cheek is <i>not</i> taken seriously.<br>
<br>
Damon<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/05/2015 02:56 PM, Jim Lynch
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:563BB464.9050805@fayettedigital.com"
type="cite">Not unless they hit and ran. Reinstalling with
conventional partitioning of the same disk worked just fine bot
times. I just installed 14.04 using LVM on a new system with an
SSD and I'll see how long it lasts.
<br>
<br>
On 11/04/2015 09:16 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Sounds like hard drive failures. </blockquote>
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