[PLUG] Linux + XP dual boot

[Arun Khan]

On Thursday 20 Mar 2008, Abhijit Paithankar wrote:
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> Everything else goes to /. All in a single file system.

I strongly profess /home on a different partition - other posts have 
already made a case for it.

> This configuration usually works out to be the best for personal
> computers. LVM makes it really hard to rescue any data if your disk
> crashes.
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Backups, Backups, Backups.

LVMs gives you the flexibilty to expand/shrink your filesytem.

It is hard to rescue data when the disk crashes, irrespective of LVM or 
no LVM unless you are referring to professional services who may not 
have tools to handle LVMs.

I had a filesystem crash on a 160GB hard disk, it would not mount 
because of bad sectors on the disk.  The filesystem was not on a LVM.  
I tried all the standard tools available but no dice.

-- Arun Khan