Santa brought me a nice 80 GB "portable" USB drive. My intended use
is a combination of backup and transporting personal files to/from
work (I want to remove them from my work hard drive). Both home and
work systems are FC3, but may be FC4 sometime soon.
I was ready to partitioning (4 GB fat, remainder ext3) when I started
reading up on logical volumes. They seem pretty neat, but I wonder
if they are useful for a portable drive. In particular, I can see
that some/all of the definitions for the group and volume are in
/dev/mapper, so I'd have to duplicate some of the setup on both
machines.
Any recommendations or experience? Would I be better off with
physical partitions for this use?
TIA,
Bill
