[mdlug] Completely replacing Windows XP Pro with Linux!

[Aaron Kulkis]

Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-07-21 at 22:53 -0400, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
>> Jonathan Billings wrote:
>>> On Jul 21, 2014, at 6:36 AM, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
>>>> If you use LVM, and make your physical disks physical volumes, you can
>>>> just add them to a volume group and forget about locality altogether.
>>>> No more fussing with partitions;  a world without partitions is a
>>>> beautiful place.
>> Now that you're using LVM, make absolutely sure that you do backups
>> frequently AND
>
> Yep.
>
>> that you test that you can recover from scrambled LVM data.
>>
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> Nope, don't care.
>
> And many systems using LVM in production, including my own workstation
> and laptops - no LVM corruption yet.  And I'm aware of many much larger
> and busier systems than mine - running LVM for years.
>
> IBM & RedHat endorse and support LVM.
>

LVM runs perfectly.. until it doesn't.