[linux-lvm] How to move /usr from LVM back to non-LVM?

[Stuart D. Gathman]

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Charles Marcus wrote:

> On 4/28/2008, Georges Giralt (georges.giralt at free.fr) wrote:
> > But some people will question the reason you will move from LVM to 
> > plain filesystem/partitioning.... 
> 
> Good point... and maybe my reason is not a 'good one'... ;)
> 
> My thinking is, since /usr is a critical system partition, it should be 
> on the main system drive - which I always set up as a simple 2 drive mirror.

I made that mistake on one system.

> So, I'm now curious how/what other people generally use LVM for?

And now I regret it because I can't use snapshots to take backups
of the system.  The only drawback to LVM is that initrd is trickier.
And a good LiveCD makes it possible to recover from boot problems -
even remotely. 

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