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Sam Vilain wrote:

> Seems like a good enough policy.  An alternative is to have a larger
> root, so that you can do LVM diagnostics without using a boot CD.  But
> using a standard vendor configuration means that you're going to surprise
> fewer admins that come along.


We use a 4GB root partition, 2GB swap partition and then the rest is a 
PV for LVM2.
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Michael T. Babcock