<div>On 4/3/06, Jim Ford <<a href="mailto:jaford@watford53.freeserve.co.uk" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">jaford@watford53.freeserve.co.uk </a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hmm, there are so many horror stories on this forum that I'm beginning to wish that I hadn't chosen the LVM option when I installed my Kubuntu system! Mind you, having said that, I never had problems with 5 years of software raid on a Slackware box. </blockquote></div> I agree it is scary, by which I mean that you got to play with it carefully. Having said that, I find LVM a step (generation) above normal partitioning system. It can give lot of flexibility provided that is planned properly and in advance. In many cases I find users (not anyone particular), let's call 'click happy', and here I mean to say that people have taken it for granted that LVM will be a cake walk, It is if you know how you can play with it. LVM is not like a computer game where one plays and learns. Here, replay is very costly and that is causing lot of anguish among users. -- Anil Kumar Shrama