On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Kevin J. Cummings < cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net> wrote:
> On 05/02/2010 11:23 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: > > I have selected my disk partitioning for a long time and when new > > wizardry comes along, I always wonder how much help it's going to be. In > > most cases, for a desktop, here, I'd say "none". > > > > > I believe there should be a page on FedoraProject to explain how > > to get > > > rid of that ext3 /boot partition. Of course, for most people, I > > suppose > > > it won't be much of an issue for most users but, when a 500 MB boot > > > partition is now suggested for /boot -- which 25 times my first > > HD! --, > > > it certainly doesn't look very clean. > > > > Knowledge of this sort is a dangerous weapon. It is known by those > who > > understand it and are willing to possibly shoot themselves in the > foot > > because they know what they are doing. When you get to that stage, > you > > will understand. > > > > > > There are some solutions here: > > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_PreUpgrade#Not_enough_space_in_.2Fboot > > > > but you think they're unsafe? > > That's not what I said. I said I've been using Fedora and RedHat long > before things like LVM existed. I'm more comfortable without them at > times, especially after I got burned by a disk failure while using LVM. > Oops! Disk failures happen. You had problems doing a restore? Whatever the case may be, it seems to me LVM shouldn't be thrown at newbies for the desktop. I certainly will keep away from it as much as I can. > You decide what you are willing to live with > I, as most desktop users, am willing to live with as little problems as possible. :) I don't believe LVM is part of this.
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