On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:04:26AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > Seriously dude, this looks like a dumb scheme that gives you warm > and fuzzies but doesn't actually accomplish anything except increased > complexity.
I came up with this way back when I was using another distro that didn't do "rolling upgrades" like Gentoo. As a matter of fact, on occasion, it wouldn't do *ANY* type of upgrade, except nuke and re-pave :( This disk setup allowed me to... * boot from an install CD * manually wipe the contents of /boot, /tmp, /var. /usr, opt, /etc, etc. * and then install the latest version from CD ...*WITHOUT* having to move my data and home directory to another disk and repartion+reformat+restore. It also avoided having to re-size partitions whenever my space needs would change. All the advantages of lvm without the "increased complexity" of lvm. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
