Disk Partition Editing with GNU Parted and GParted [LWN.net]

Disk Partition Editing with GNU Parted and GParted

Posted Oct 28, 2004 9:29 UTC (Thu) by hensema (guest, #980)
Parent article: Disk Partition Editing with GNU Parted and GParted

Please take a look at LVM before considering setting up old fashioned partitions. On a new linux system you really don't want to work with partitions anymore. LVM makes parted look like an ugly hack.

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Disk Partition Editing with GNU Parted and GParted

Posted Oct 28, 2004 13:20 UTC (Thu) by kay (subscriber, #1362) [Link]

LVM is a good way to go with an Linux only system or with a whole disk fpr linux.

How do you create space for Linux without an additional disk and without destroing other OS/Data on your disk?

How do you rearrange Disks i.e. BSD. Windows, MacOS Disks without non GPL-Tools?

GNU Parted ist not a Linux tool only and its GPL.

Kay

LVM properties

Posted Oct 28, 2004 17:33 UTC (Thu) by jreiser (subscriber, #11027) [Link]

However, LVM has its own issues. Not all Linux distributions support LVM, combining LVM with RAID can be complex, using LVM complicates disaster recovery [from administrator error as well as hardware failure], LVM has a history of incompatible versions, and LVM is almost unknown in the non-Linux world with which some boxes eventually interact. Using LVM has a space and runtime cost that can be avoided for well-known workloads. Even for a new Linux-only Linux-forever system, it is wise to have a separate non-LVM boot partition.

LVM properties

Posted Oct 31, 2004 4:45 UTC (Sun) by bk (guest, #25617) [Link]

The space and runtime overhead of LVM(2) are negligible and are far overshadowed by the gain in functionality and convenience.

Running low on space in /home? You can add a few gigs of space with two shell commands as root without even having to unmount it. You can install a new physical disk and add its capacity to your existing volumes seamlessly and transparently. No more /mnt/disk2 hacks.

I consider LVM essential for desktop systems.

Disk Partition Editing with GNU Parted and GParted

Posted Nov 1, 2004 13:20 UTC (Mon) by mdekkers (guest, #85) [Link]

LVM -- or rather, SUSE's implementation of LVM -- just chewed up 4 250GB reiserfs disks, causing me no end of grief with getting my system back online. In a related incident, the reiser "fixit" tools thought a vmware file containing a linux image was actually a "lost" filesystem, and helpfully "restored" it back on to the disk, wiping out loads of data in the process.... Needless to say, I am no longer using LVM (a short-lived experience for me) and am using XFS and ext3 for my filesystems. did have a brief look at evms and thought "cool.....not again".

LVM is great - if you have faith in your tapes.....