Greetings: I apologize in advance that response is not related to your original post but so far I have not been successful in reaching out to anyone at P.L.U.G. I am a senior citizen who used to attend the installfests pre- pandemic. The problem is that there's no longer a way to reach out to anyone for assistance. I am a bit cognitively challenged and can't navigate this "Big Blue Button" way of communicating. Could you please reach out to someone there that could get in touch with me specifically by phone? It just needs to be someone that would be willing to come to me to assist. I have a very old version of Linux Mint that I would like to update. I also installed a new DVD drive in my IBM T61 laptop and have no knowledge about how to configure it. My contact number is (480)925-8875 and I'm near I-17 and Bethany Home Rd. I realize that this is a very out of the norm request but I'm really desperate. Thanks for any assistance you can provide in getting someone to help me. Kind Regards, Jeffrey Morgan
On Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 3:32 PM Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss < [email protected]> wrote: > There is also the ability to use LVM for storage tiering via LVM caching. > really cool tech to speed up a spinning rust drive. I have presented this > to the group in the past. > > On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Tue, 19 Aug 2025 11:20:57 -0700 >> Mark Phillips via PLUG-discuss <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > In terms of a major reinstall, should I use LVM or not? >> >> No, don't use LVM. Just one more abstraction layer to go wrong and bork >> all your data. It also adds more learning to our already >> overburdened minds. From my understanding, LVM bestows three advantages: >> >> 1) "Rubber" partitions that can grow and shrink. >> >> 2) Partition snapshots. >> >> 3) Combining multiple hardware disks into one virtual disk. >> >> Now, with the advent of bind mounts, rubber partitions are trivial >> without LVM or any other abstraction layer. >> >> You can get pretty close to the utility of snapshots with rsync. If you >> want real snapshots, just substitute btrfs instead of ext4. >> >> Combining multiple hardware disks is often done for the wrong reason. I >> wish I had a dime for every person trying to combine a 20 year old 20GB >> drive, a 10 year old 1TB drive, and a current day 16GB drive, just to >> add 1020GB to a 16,000,000 GB system. Not worth the added complexity of >> LVM. >> >> A better reason is to add in a new 20TB drive after your 16TB drive >> became full. But still not good enough. The new drive can be carved up >> into directories to be bind-mounted to mountpoints on the 20GB drive, >> so LVM is still not necessary. >> >> Maybe there's some RAID related reason to use LVM. I wouldn't know >> because I don't use RAID. If you don't need high availability or error >> correction, why use RAID. If you DO need high availability or error >> correction, then you can take everything I've said with a grain of >> salt, because your use case is different. >> >> SteveT >> >> Steve Litt >> Spring 2023 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful >> Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list: [email protected] >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > -- > A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from > rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. > > Stephen > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list: [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >
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