On 06/25/2010 02:04 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 06/24/2010 10:39 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 
>> I can't help wondering, not for the first time, whether LVM is really
>> worth the hassle on a desktop machine.
> 
> Depends, I am inclined to say.
> 
> It's worth the hassle on real desktops, which I may be added further 
> disks over their life-time. It's not worth the hassle on systems which 
> will not be added further disks (such as laptops).
> 
> That said, I can't help wondering why Fedora's installer doesn't offer a 
> "partitioned disk-layout" (like other distros do) and why Fedora hasn't 
> adopted grub2, yet (like some other distros did).

grub2 is available in the repositories.  Use it at your own discretion....

And for the partitioning schemes, feel free to change them.  I have.

I've punted LVM, and I've punted /boot on all of my computers (I don't
need/want either of them).  That's 1 desktop, 1 laptop, and 1 server.

> Ralf

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