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 ...

You lose any logical volume that has any blocks on that physical volume. By default, LVM will just put LVs on whatever PV it has available, but you can restrict it. Still, you really want a redundant ...