[Gllug] To partition or not to partition

[Alain Williams]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 12:08:31PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> 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:

Whoops - not thinking. So: modify my question to talk about file system partitions :-)

> 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.

I was about to say: ``You can't have /boot in a LVM partition'', but this is
one of the things that GRUB2 brings.

I suppose that if you have only one filesystem then there is little point in
using LVM - since all of the disk (minus swap) is in the one partition. Yes: there
is a gain if you need to add a disk - but how often does that happen on a consumer
desktop system ?

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