[Gllug] To partition or not to partition

[Richard Jones]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:00:18AM +0100, Alain Williams wrote:
> Reading the review on el reg about the latest Ubuntu:
> 
> 	http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2010/10/11/ubuntu_10_10_review/
> 
> one item of discussion is that Ubuntu does not partition the disk.

Clarification: it still has a swap partition, but they've combined the
boot and root partitions into one:

$ sudo virt-list-partitions -hlt Ubuntu1010x64
/dev/sda1 ext4 9.5G
/dev/sda5 swap 481.0M
/dev/sda device 10.0G

While I agree that partitions are not very useful and combining boot
and root into one is a good thing, I think it's inexcusable for them
not to be using LVM by default.  The performance impact is minor but
the flexibility that LVM brings is something I would miss.

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat
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