Quoting Alessandro Selli (alessandrose...@linux.com): > Can you name me one distribution other than Red Hat (which in > fact is not a desktop-friendly distribution) that does not allow one to > "do their own partition setup"?
I'm curious, Alessandro: Is RHEL now completely hostile to custom filesystem setup? A long time ago (like maybe RHEL3), Red Hat built into its Anaconda installer an ncurses-oriented 'guided' partitioning tool that was guilty of both concealing information (suppressed display of any extended partition, though logical partitions within it were displayed) and also unacceptably overrode the installing admin's judgement (e.g., rearranging following its own criteria the filesystems to be created). First time I encountered the latter misbehaviour, I exercised my vocubulary in several languages on the topics of theology and biology, further commented 'Sod _this_ for a lark', cancelled out of that subscreen, switched to Ctrl-Alt-F2, and used /sbin/fdisk instead. Just offhand, I'm betting that a similar approach may still be fruitful, though I've not needed to deal with the darned thing in quite a while. Years later, based partly on that lesson, I started leaning towards a preference for using a best-of-breed live distro for partitioning and mkfs'ing all of my filesystems _before_ using the desired distro installer. FWIW, I found the Siduction live CD ideal for this purpose. (Siduction is the surviving fork of an innovative distro, Sidux, that was a quarterly CD ISO release based on Debian Sid + stabilisation packages.) My thought is: If you find a maintenance bootable image that is reliably perfect for filesystem creation/layout, maybe you should rely on it. Sometimes, specialised tools justify themselves. > And again, I do get the technical reasons that have datacenter and > cluster sysadmins prefer a merged filesystem.... FWIW, I suspect that the premise (from an upstream poster) is pretty much rubbish, analogue to Usenet's infamous 'the lurkers support me in e-mail' rejoider, and of null information value either way. I suspect the aforementioned datacentre and cluster admins are the same lunkheads who think default Docker configurations are the right way to build Internet infrastructure. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
