From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5EA3E138330 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2016 12:21:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 28F5C21C08F; Thu, 1 Sep 2016 12:21:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost03d.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost03d.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.23]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 108F721C075 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2016 12:21:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.83.178] (helo=mail.digimed.co.uk) by smarthost03d.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1bfQzy-0005Re-T1 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2016 12:21:38 +0000 Received: from digimed.co.uk (fenchurch.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 05FDB537913 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2016 13:21:37 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 13:21:30 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive? Message-ID: <20160901132130.43fbd972@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <57C7D92A.20109@hanft.de> <20160901095407.5d687e41@digimed.co.uk> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.14.0 (GTK+ 2.24.30; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/mL2GB65HpK/GLDt5WQ23nON"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Originating-smarthost03d-IP: [82.69.83.178] Feedback-ID: 82.69.83.178 X-Archives-Salt: 13323b73-29e9-43e4-a320-359ad924a427 X-Archives-Hash: e94d721b984ab113ffc6729af59b3441 --Sig_/mL2GB65HpK/GLDt5WQ23nON Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 12:09:09 +0300, gevisz wrote: > > Have you considered LVM? You get the benefits of separate filesystems > > without the limitations of inflexible partitioning. =20 >=20 > I am afraid of LVM because of the same reason as described below: >=20 > returning to the "old good times" of MS DOS 6.22, I do remember that > working then on 40MB (yes, megabytes) hard drive I used some program > that compressed all the data before saving them on that hard drive. > Unfortunately, one day, because of the corruption, I lost all the data > on that hard drive. Since then, I am very much afraid of compressed or > encrypted hard drives. LVM is neither encrypted nor compressed. The filesystems on it are no different to the filesystems on physical partitions, and subject to the same risks. An LVM logical volume is just a block device that is treated the same as a physical partition on a non-LVM setup. Sp far, you have come up with reasons, good or otherwise, for not taking each of the available choices. You need to decide what you really need and what is important to you. Only then can you decide on the best arrangement for your needs. --=20 Neil Bothwick Evolution stops when stupidity is no longer fatal! --Sig_/mL2GB65HpK/GLDt5WQ23nON Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAlfIHUoACgkQum4al0N1GQPaUQCgsZPLUOCZZs9U5r88hP4RF5Ip n+4An1P0dCcZlyUN2mA2k5jHuV9b6Kjt =GnRN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/mL2GB65HpK/GLDt5WQ23nON--