partition size.

[Matt Graham]

>> James Mcphee via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> 
>> wrote:
>>> I generally go with 20 gigs for my homedir.  but i make it an lvm
>>> partition, so i can grow it as needed.

20G?  Yikes, I think I have individual directories that are almost that 
large.  Then again, I think the oldest files I have here are from 
1995ish.

> On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 12:51 PM Steve Litt wrote:
>> I don't use LVM because I try to limit layers of complexity. So what 
>> I
>> do is when a directory under /home/slitt gets too big, I use a bind
>> mount to host that particular directory.

>> /scratch/gnome-boxes /home/slitt/.local/share/gnome-boxes none bind 0 
>> 0

While this is an interesting idea, it doesn't really reduce complexity. 
It moves the complexity to a different place.  It moves the hard part 
from LVM and device-mapper to a large fstab and everything having to be 
mounted in a specific order.

On 2020-07-10 12:58, James Mcphee via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> lvm is so good I almost always use it.

There are 2 major problems with LVM.  Only Linux can read it, making it 
useless if you need to dual-boot.  Also, you can't have your / on LVM 
without an initrd that has all the LVM tools in it.  Being able to 
resize an LV without jumping through partition hoops is extremely 
useful, so much so that it's probably LVM's killer feature.  Back in the 
day, it also got around the 15-partition limit on SCSI disks, though I 
see they've solved that problem in another way now.  (My phone has 22 
partitions, which either means shenanigans or the people at Samsung were 
smoking the really good drugs....)

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