All Linux sysadmin books tell about the awesomeness of LVM. But is actually anyone using it? On a desktop it adds needless complexity - you only need boot, (efi), swap, root and perhaps home. You ...

I am looking to create disk images of a few systems so that I can migrate them to VMWare. They are RHEL 4 using LVM so partimage and Ghost do not recognize them. What I ended up doing was tar'ing up ...