Strategy for /tmp and /home Partitioning

[Peter Gordon]

Mike McCarty said:
> I don't want two, three, five, you count'em partitions
> on the disc, because then I'd have to know in advance how
> much to allocate to each, and each would always be larger
> than it would have to be. I'd rather have one partition,
> and let the various pieces dynamically get resized as
> needed.

Correct me if I'm misunderstanding, but isn't this the main purpose
of LVM and similar technologies?

--Peter