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Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

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On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 09:46:34AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
> LVM is much more flexible and less prone to do things to your data
> than, say, the tools that re-size your partitions the hard way. You do
> still have to exercise common sense, however.
> 
> I've lost a re-sized partition permanently using a commercial tool
> whose name I refuse to remember.
> 
> I lost a bunch of LVM  partitions once through pure carelessness and
> used the LVM maintenance tools to recover them. Took a couple of hours
> to read the manuals, recover, and be on my way. Kept using that
> partition map for several years with no problems.

Please don't confuse physical volumes and partitions, the OP seems
confused enough already. :)

http://linuxconfig.org/linux-lvm-logical-volume-manager

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LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2015-11-18 01:10 +0100
  Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-11-18 09:10 +0100
    Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2015-11-18 10:30 +0100
  Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> - 2015-11-18 11:10 +0100
    Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2015-11-18 14:10 +0100
      Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> - 2015-11-20 01:50 +0100
        Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-11-20 08:50 +0100
          Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> - 2015-11-20 23:30 +0100
            Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-11-21 09:20 +0100
              Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> - 2015-11-21 20:00 +0100
                Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's "John L. Ries" <jries@salford-systems.com> - 2015-11-21 20:10 +0100
            Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2015-11-21 13:40 +0100
        Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-11-20 09:30 +0100
        Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2015-11-21 13:20 +0100
          Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-11-21 22:00 +0100
          Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-11-21 23:50 +0100
            Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2015-11-22 13:00 +0100
  Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2015-11-18 17:00 +0100
    Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2015-11-19 13:40 +0100
  Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's "John L. Ries" <jries@salford-systems.com> - 2015-11-18 18:40 +0100
    Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2015-11-18 20:20 +0100
      Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's "John L. Ries" <jries@salford-systems.com> - 2015-11-18 20:30 +0100
      Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2015-11-18 23:50 +0100
  Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2015-11-18 19:30 +0100
    Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2015-11-18 20:00 +0100
    Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's Stephan Seitz <stse+debian@fsing.rootsland.net> - 2015-11-18 20:20 +0100
  Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's Javi Barroso <javibarroso@gmail.com> - 2015-11-21 09:10 +0100
    Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2015-11-21 12:40 +0100
  [PARTAL success]   Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2015-11-23 00:40 +0100

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