On 12/01/2015 06:29 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 12/01/2015 03:37 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> Not so. If you have LVM you have to*know* you have LVM, otherwise your >> disk partition names won't make any sense. Just doing a "df" requires >> you to know this and understand what it means. > > Why is understanding the device names, as opposed to understanding what > filesystems are, critical to understanding the output of "df"? Addressing the > issue of filesystem use typically involves searching and summing file sizes > (du). The first step to addressing filesystem use issues is probably > archiving or deleting unnecessary data, which isn't affected by LVM. Beyond > that, users might choose to address such an issue by re-sizing the > filesystem, which is possible with LVM but generally difficult or impossible > without it. Or they might choose to reinstall with different filesystem > allocations and restore data from backup, which also isn't affected by LVM. > > I don't see your case, frankly. I can't find any process here that LVM > complicates.
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