On Sep 18, 2007, at 9:08 AM, jef e wrote:
Grant Waters wrote:
Have you tried using kickstart. I found that a very easy way of
pre-setting the partitions and it worked fine.
This will be the eventual goal, I think. We are currently using
Debian in combination with systemimager to mimic the same behavior.
We've recently decided to go with RedHat for various reasons, so
we're still goofing around with the various pieces and parts of the
system to get comfortable.
However, I have to say that I've done dozens of RH5 install and
generally
the disk partitioning with the GUI worked fine too. It comes up
with some
default LVM layout which I delete completely in the GUI, then
simply add my
boot, var, swap and root partitions in that order, the size I want
them and
let it use extended partition if it needs to. Not been a problem.
I noticed the LVM thing, too, and got rid of it as well initially.
My gripe is mainly that I'd prefer to control where on the disk
each partition goes. I prefer /boot up front, and dislike certain
other partions being extended partitions. Like I noted, not a big
deal, but I just found it odd/frustrating that there seems to be no
apparent logic to how Redhat is going to decide where to place each
one, since it does so before I tell it what that particular slice
is going to be.
Perhaps I'm just stuck in my ways from the days when it sometimes
mattered where on a disk swap and other partitions lived for
performance reasons. Showing my age, I guess :)
You should give LVM a try. It abstracts the hardware layer so you
don't have to worry about physical partitions. Of course if you are
sure you will never need to grow a file system, using fdisk or parted
and creating your partitions is just fine too. If you get a chance
read my article on how to use LVM to make resizable storage.
http://www.sdmachelp.com/linuxlvm.html
David.
Thanks for all the help everyone.
jef
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