Re: partition magic-ally

["prash" <iprash@gmail.com>]

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 12:05:38PM -0700, prash wrote:
> > hello,
> >   i have a spanking new machine with a 40 gb hard disk - all for my
> > favorite distro! of course too much space is a bad thing too
> > (especially when you don't know how to allocate it).
> >   i have decided on this scheme to begin with:
>
> Scrap the whole scheme.  Just use LVM.  Trust me on this.  It is quite
> worth it.  Setting up LVM on a new drive is a piece of cake.  Trying to
> do it once the drive has been in use for a year and you have lots of
> important data on it is a royal pain.  With LVM you can resize your
> partitions whenever you want.
>
> -Roberto
>
> --
> Roberto C. Sanchez
> http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr

thanks! lvm seems like a great idea - but i am a bit confused.
there seems to be a debian lvm download, but to download this i must
first have debian for which i first need to decide on a partition
scheme, which in effect defeats the purpose (or am i, as usual, missing
something?)
-prash.