On 12/31/2009 01:49 AM, Garrick Sitongia wrote:
I just installed Fedora for the first time on my Windows/Linux dual boot
system. The Fedora installer gave me the option of installing over the
present linux installation on the disk, an old Mandriva version. I
assumed this meant the operating
Tim:
If you're the sort that uses one huge partition for everything (and
that does seem to be the recommendation, these days), *and* you
never intend to add a second drive, then LVM is pointless to you.
R. G. Newbury:
ONE HUGE PARTITION? I'd like to know who is crazy enough to recommend
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 18:31 +1030, Tim wrote:
Keeping a /home between installs has some problems, too. You find
that
certain things don't like your old .configuration files.
That's true independently of how you partition. Even if you do
reformat /home, presumably you backup and restore your
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 8:29 AM, John Aldrich wrote:
It's all there in the GUI, and it's completely configurable. Nothing is
forced down on you, AFAIK.
That's true. However, it *defaults* to LVM.
i.e., users who did not change the defaults/do not know the
implications of the defaults/do not
Yes, and I did, mostly with custom, over and over again. Id est, I
tried to increase the size of /boot any way I could, and never
found any way to add a single byte.
Are you talking about increasing the size of /boot before or after
the install? (I can't tell.)
Incidentally, my memory
On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 20:20 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Clearly we have different needs. I've never needed to do any of those
things without stopping the system. In fact the adding space thing
is probably what looks most attractive, but I'm paranoid about disk
failure so I can't see
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 20:10:37 +1030,
Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
The only advantage I found for using LVM on my laptop was encryption. I
could have the encompassing LVM volume encrypted, and as many partitions
as I liked, and only have to unlock the outer container. Using
On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 20:10 +1030, Tim wrote:
If you're the sort that uses one huge partition for everything (and
that does seem to be the recommendation, these days), *and* you never
intend to add a second drive, then LVM is pointless to you.
I keep /, /boot and /home on separate partitions
On Friday 01 January 2010, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
On Friday 01 January 2010 19:31:07 BeartoothHOS wrote:
I know Anaconda offers an option to *hide* LVM, but I don't
recall any choice to eschew it entirely. Am I just having a memory
lapse?
Ehmm, during the installation, at some point
On Fri, 1 Jan 2010, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
On Friday 01 January 2010 19:31:07 BeartoothHOS wrote:
I know Anaconda offers an option to *hide* LVM, but I don't
recall any choice to eschew it entirely. Am I just having a memory lapse?
Ehmm, during the installation, at some point
On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:10:37 +1030, Tim wrote
It makes almost no sense to use it on laptops, where you can only have
single drive (adding an outboard drive is quite impractical, you'd end
up with a box of bits all cabled together). And you face the
difficulty of finding recovery tools for
On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 11:35 -0500, Beartooth Comcast wrote:
I tried to increase the size of /boot any way I could, and
never found any way to add a single byte.
Note that you can only do that if there's unassigned space after the
partition you want to grow. If there isn't, you have to create
I think it possible to recover the files in the partitions wiped by the
Fedora installer. Testdisk correctly found the partitions I want to
recover, but it says they are corrupted (stop).
Data Recovery Wizard Professional recovered the file tree of one
partition and the raw files of the other
I think it possible to recover the files in the partitions wiped by the
Fedora installer. Testdisk correctly found the partitions I want to
recover, but it says they are corrupted (stop).
EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard Professional recovered the file tree of one
partition and the raw files of the
I think it possible to recover the files in the partitions wiped by the
Fedora installer. Testdisk correctly found the partitions I want to
recover, but it says they are corrupted (stop).
A commercial trial software showed it can recover the file tree of one
partition and the raw files of the
On Thursday 31 December 2009, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
A large number of RHEL sites _will_ make use of LVM (indeed, may even
require LVM). We are, remember, the experimental lab rats for the
eventual RHEL releases, so LVM must be tested as thoroughly as the
rest of the system.
I for
On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:17:40 -0500, John Aldrich wrote:
On Thursday 31 December 2009, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Somewhat OT: IMHO one thing that makes installing Fedora harder than it
needs to be for the majority of users is the default use of LVM. I've
been using Fedora since before it was
On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 19:47 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Somewhat OT: IMHO one thing that makes installing Fedora harder than it
needs to be for the majority of users is the default use of LVM. I've
been using Fedora since before it was Fedora, and have *never* had a
situation in which
On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 15:02 -0500, Chris Tyler wrote:
On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 19:47 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Somewhat OT: IMHO one thing that makes installing Fedora harder than it
needs to be for the majority of users is the default use of LVM. I've
been using Fedora since before it
On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 19:31 +, BeartoothHOS wrote:
On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:17:40 -0500, John Aldrich wrote:
On Thursday 31 December 2009, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Somewhat OT: IMHO one thing that makes installing Fedora harder than it
needs to be for the majority of users is the
On Friday 01 January 2010 19:31:07 BeartoothHOS wrote:
I know Anaconda offers an option to *hide* LVM, but I don't
recall any choice to eschew it entirely. Am I just having a memory lapse?
Ehmm, during the installation, at some point Anaconda will ask you how you
want the disk set up,
I just installed Fedora for the first time on my Windows/Linux dual boot
system. The Fedora installer gave me the option of installing over the
present linux installation on the disk, an old Mandriva version. I
assumed this meant the operating system partition. There were 2 other
unrelated ext3
On Thursday 31 December 2009, Garrick Sitongia wrote:
I just installed Fedora for the first time on my Windows/Linux dual boot
system. The Fedora installer gave me the option of installing over the
present linux installation on the disk, an old Mandriva version. I
assumed this meant the
John == John Aldrich jmaldr...@yahoo.com writes:
John As I said, you need to choose to use a custom partition
John scheme, otherwise, Fedora will wipe every linux partition as
John happened to you. Granted, it's not obvious, but if you've
John been playing with linux for more
On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 12:13 +, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
John == John Aldrich jmaldr...@yahoo.com writes:
John As I said, you need to choose to use a custom partition
John scheme, otherwise, Fedora will wipe every linux partition as
John happened to you. Granted, it's not
On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 13:17 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 12:13 +, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
John == John Aldrich jmaldr...@yahoo.com writes:
John As I said, you need to choose to use a custom partition
John scheme, otherwise, Fedora will wipe every
On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 00:49 -0800, Garrick Sitongia wrote:
I just installed Fedora for the first time on my Windows/Linux dual boot
system. The Fedora installer gave me the option of installing over the
present linux installation on the disk, an old Mandriva version. I
assumed this meant the
On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 08:25 -0600, Mike Chambers wrote:
At the bottom of that window when you make your choice, there is a box
that says (paraphrasing) - Review modifications - that you can check to
make sure it's doing the right thing. And if it's not, you can modify
what is going on and
On Thursday 31 December 2009, Mike Chambers wrote:
On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 08:25 -0600, Mike Chambers wrote:
At the bottom of that window when you make your choice, there is a box
that says (paraphrasing) - Review modifications - that you can check
to make sure it's doing the right thing.
Aaron Konstam wrote:
A GUI opens which allows you to decide to format
or not to format the partition and to decide
where it will be mounted.
Manually configure should be the default, not the present default, which
basically
destroys all of your existing partitions and data. Luckily, I, as
On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 11:22 -0500, John Aldrich wrote:
I can see both sides of this. I don't think it would hurt anything to
have
a *little* hand-holding by the installer, something to the effect of
If you
don't want to blow everythign away and start from scratch, choose a
different
On Thursday 31 December 2009, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Somewhat OT: IMHO one thing that makes installing Fedora harder than it
needs to be for the majority of users is the default use of LVM. I've
been using Fedora since before it was Fedora, and have *never* had a
situation in which LVM was
On 12/31/2009 11:47 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
snip
Somewhat OT: IMHO one thing that makes installing Fedora harder than it
needs to be for the majority of users is the default use of LVM. I've
been using Fedora since before it was Fedora, and have *never* had a
situation in which LVM was
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
I've been using Fedora since before it was Fedora, and
have never had a situation in which LVM was any use to me.
+1
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On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 12:28 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
On 12/31/2009 11:47 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
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Somewhat OT: IMHO one thing that makes installing Fedora harder than it
needs to be for the majority of users is the default use of LVM. I've
been using Fedora since before it
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