Re: [gentoo-user] Simplest NTP client for standalone system?

["Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>]

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 09:49:58AM -0700, Rich Freeman wrote
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 8:32 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Another example is LVM. You or I might really need it (debatable now we
> > have ZFS) but the average user has no concept of what it might be, or
> > care. So why do Ubuntu installers shove it in your face as something
> > really cool that you should really really use? Because the author of the
> > installer thinks it's really cool, that's why.
> >
> 
> Maybe.
> 
> Or maybe because when that computer's hard drive starts getting full
> and you add a new hard drive, if you're using lvm with a few commands
> you can make your /home expand across both drives, while with straight
> partitions that is a lot more work.

  1) I don't recall having added a hard drive for many years.

  2) How difficult is it to symlink directories?

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications