2009/3/16, Charles Marcus <CMarcus at media-brokers.com>: > Seeing as my /var (with both postfix & courier-imap using it for mail > storage) has been on lvm for almost 4 years, that would be news to me... And how often has the computer crashed needing an fsck in those years? It's most likely no problem if the fs is always unmounted cleanly. Best Martin