Yum did it again

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Fri Jun 24 22:32:16 UTC 2005


On Friday 24 June 2005 16:04, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 12:09 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Friday 24 June 2005 08:36, Matthew Miller wrote:
[...]
>Plainly put, LVM is an enabling technology that underlies your
> actual file system choices.  You still choose ext3 "partitions,"
> but now each of those partitions, instead of being defined on the
> disk itself in the partition tables, is sliced out of the total
> space in a LVM VG. Although your fstab will look different, to
> everything in user space, like tar, ls, etc., /home/me/myfile is
> accessed the same way.  Clear as mud?

Approximately :-) What you are saying is that tar isn't going to care 
and it will work 'as usual', right?

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