Controlling servers (e.g. apache, samba)

[Derek Broughton]

Gabriel Dragffy wrote:

> This is going a bit off-topic now with partitioning......
> If you are setting up partitions for linux, you'd be crazy not to go
> with LVM, you can increase the size of logical volumes online, and
> shrink them offline. All the problems that you say you encountered are
> solved by LVM. Obviously LVM won't play nice with OS X but you can do:
> 100MB primary partition for /boot
> 10GB primary partition for OS X
> all the rest as a LVM, then you can install ubuntu in to the LVM and
> other distros too.

Do you do that?  I'm really uncomfortable with the idea of my root partition
in the LVM.  I'm not really sure what _could_ happen, but I worry that if
the device starts to fail there may be nothing at all recoverable if I
can't get into the LVM and mount the root.  So I put / on a physical
partition but everything else in the LVM.
-- 
derek