Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> writes:
>> And things may change yet again in the future.  With Btrfs, one can
>> have a single filesystem with multiple subvolumes.  The subvolumes
>> can be mounted independently, and also snapshotted independently,
>> but have a common pool for free data, so unlike partitions any
>> subvolume can grow/shrink as required.
>
> Ie, almost all upsides of LVM.

Wait, what?  AFAIK, multiple partitions in LVM _don't_ share
free-space, they're basically independent filesystems, with the
individual hard allocation limits (and if one wants to _change_ those
limits, growing-shrinking filesystems in concert with partitions seems
all too easy for a user to screw up, hosing their data).

No...?

-Miles

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