aaron kulkis cmiqlkx91hotpopcom per jessen wrote aaron kulkis wrote forces repartition entire drive dont feel lvm safe dont use lvm partitions rely filesystem holding lvm table remain uncorrupted corruption filesystem well destroy lvm partitioning suggestions something let expand filesystem systems must kept running 365x24 none thats one ways lots oracle database raw partitions would advise using lvm without reservations lvm evms actually used quite lot solve real problem similar systems use eg aix hpux 10 years know ive using since 1996 thu 07 aug 2008 030621 0500 opensuse lvmevms