On Sun, 13 Jan 2019 23:19:35 +0100 deloptes <delop...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > I never could understand that type of "reasoning." With me, if there's > > no NEED, it's not done. I'm very much the pragmatist. Always have > > been even as a child, and never likely to change. > > you need it but you don't know yet Unlikely. Haven't needed LVM (or RAID for that matter) in the almost 20 years Linux has been my personal OS. > For example I leave some percentage of the disc unused and can increase the > any partition when needed - because I do not know which one will get filled > first. Now this can be challengeing without lvm and lvm does not come with > significant overhead. So why not?! I'm VERY diligent about pruning and deleting old or unneed files, data, apps, etc. For example, my Wheezy install which I used for 5 years (until support was dropped): / 16GB 45% full; /home 207GB 43% full. I'm not a gamer. So, no humongous installs there. I have no music, video or movies taking up space. I don't even use a desktop environment. Window manager and a single panel only. And I'm the only user of the system. My Stretch install (about 6 months old) has even lower percentages, but that's to be expected. Obviously, how and what you use for system for are very different from mine. B
