From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m3SGnsRe028152 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:49:54 -0400 Received: from smtp05.atlngahp.sys.nuvox.net (smtp-out5.atlngahp.sys.nuvox.net [70.43.63.23]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m3SGnevJ020126 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:49:41 -0400 Received: from smtp.media-brokers.com (70.43.81.99.nw.nuvox.net [70.43.81.99]) by smtp05.atlngahp.sys.nuvox.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m3SGnY6Q029906 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:49:35 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.110] (sjester.atl.media-brokers.com [192.168.1.110]) by smtp.media-brokers.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C82633748D5 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:49:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4816001E.6010909@Media-Brokers.com> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:49:34 -0400 From: Charles Marcus MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] How to move /usr from LVM back to non-LVM? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: LVM general discussion and development On 4/28/2008, Stuart D. Gathman (stuart@bmsi.com) wrote: >> So, I'm now curious how/what other people generally use LVM for? > And now I regret it because I can't use snapshots to take backups > of the system. The only drawback to LVM is that initrd is trickier. > And a good LiveCD makes it possible to recover from boot problems - > even remotely. Good point... Actually my question was incomplete... it should have read: I'm curious what partitions/directories other people use LVM for? -- Best regards, Charles