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[Martin Maney]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 02:11:35PM -0500, Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 19:02 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > (Actually, I'd *love* to have the "Erase entire disk" mode in the
> > installer set up LVM by default, or EVMS, or whatever. Wouldn't it be
> > great to be able to say to users "don't worry about your partition
> > layout; you can change it later"?)
> 
> Not really. It adds complexity to the system, and you cannot move
> partitions and install another OS on it anyway.

Funny, I just did install Sarge into an existing LVM partition set. 
One built over md RAID1, in fact.  Granted I wouldn't have wanted to
try it with earlier releases of Debian; dunno about other distros. As
for Windows, no, of course it won't install onto LVM-managed space. 
I'd rather have LVM there to help me clean up the space to carve out a
new partition if I needed to do so, though.

> As far as desktop systems are concerned, IMHO making everything a
> single / partition is an acceptable solution.

Depends on what sort of desktop.  The kind that MIS comes around and
routinely re-images when things go wrong, sure.

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