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With the two O/S partitions, you can experiment with a newer O/S version in the future, and yet still have your original working O/S version intact until all is well with the new one.


Note that an advanced user would likely have just a single O/S partition, and would not immediately allocate the rest of the LVM to the massive data area.

Instead, they would allocate from the LVM to the data area in large chunks, as the need grows. And they'd use the nifty "LVM snapshot" capability to "fork" the O/S partition when experimenting with upgrades.

Very very fancy and useful, but maybe a bit much for starting out.

Cheers


Edited by mlord (14/04/2007 16:15)