On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:58:56 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > * the rest of the drive is one large reiserfs partition > > The power of LVM, without the pain. Hardly. For instance, a runaway program filling logfiles will fill up everything, you can't isolate, for example, personal and system data. I don't see how you have use your method with multiple drives without serious kludging. LVM is about a lot more than keeping everything on one partition. -- Neil Bothwick Monday is the root of all evil!