Generally I'm not a big fan of LVM. It has a lot of moving parts, addsan extra layer of indirection, and the whole set of commands and taskshas always felt rather complex; there was too much fan dancing for theresults I'd get.

But I have a new machine to set up, and I have to say that moderndisks have really made LVM tempting. The problem is that they'vegotten so big that I no longer have any idea what I want to do

A quick observation:

There is nothing quite like writing up the documentation for a newfeature you've just programmed to poke you into realizing just howlame your quick implementation is, and spur you into doing a better,less limited version. Somehow it is just hard to put the limits of aquick hack down in the black and white of text; making the limitationsexplicit makes them all the more cringe-worthy and petty.

Every so often I wind up having to fix up a Solaris 9 machine thatdoesn't have Sun's wget or the like installed. Presumably there isan official way of dealing with this, but so far I have just used myunofficial brute force approach.

Solaris packages in their native form are just subdirectories (withpiles of stuff), with the directory name being the package name; on theSolaris 9 CDs, they're found in the subdirectory Solaris_9/Product .One of the formats