partitioning new installation

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 08:18:28PM -0500, James Knott wrote:
> I suppose with LVM, a "partition" could be scattered all over the disk.

True, but you don't need to worry about that part.  You don't resize the
physical volume for LVM, just only add or remove whole physical volumes.
You can request that it move all current logical volumes off of a given
physical volume so that you can later ask it to be removed from the
volume group.

The filesystem only matters when you want to resize a logical volume.
Expanding can often be done on the fly.  Shinking can't.

Len Sorensen
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