partition management in dual-boot laptop / limited space

2016-01-06 Thread Ian Malone
It's been a while since I touched LVM, I don't use it on my personal machines since I don't need what it provides and when it was first introduced in Fedora I found it slowed things down a bit. Right now I'm changing my laptop to a 250GB SSD (from the 100GB it had previously). It dual boots and

Re: partition management in dual-boot laptop / limited space

2016-01-06 Thread Ian Malone
On 6 January 2016 at 17:01, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 13:30 +, Ian Malone wrote: >> Is there any less drastic approach? > > You don't really explain your use case. I find it's enough to run the > occasional Windows session in a VM, but if you

Re: partition management in dual-boot laptop / limited space

2016-01-06 Thread Rick Stevens
On 01/06/2016 10:23 AM, Ian Malone wrote: On 6 January 2016 at 17:01, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 13:30 +, Ian Malone wrote: Is there any less drastic approach? You don't really explain your use case. I find it's enough to run the occasional

Re: partition management in dual-boot laptop / limited space

2016-01-06 Thread Ian Malone
On 6 January 2016 at 18:33, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 01/06/2016 10:23 AM, Ian Malone wrote: >> >> On 6 January 2016 at 17:01, Patrick O'Callaghan >> wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 13:30 +, Ian Malone wrote: Is there any less

Re: partition management in dual-boot laptop / limited space

2016-01-06 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 13:30 +, Ian Malone wrote: > Is there any less drastic approach? You don't really explain your use case. I find it's enough to run the occasional Windows session in a VM, but if you depend on high- performance 3D graphics (e.g. for gaming) that may not be enough. For

Re: partition management in dual-boot laptop / limited space

2016-01-06 Thread Chris Murphy
You could use LVM thin p for / and /home. The advantage is LV sizes are virtual, and can be larger than the VG. So it's an on demand pool of extents, assigned when needed by whichever LV. The installer won't let you over commit though. So what you do is create only / and set that volume size to

Re: partition management in dual-boot laptop / limited space

2016-01-06 Thread Sylvia Sánchez
First, I strongly recommend to put /home in a separated partition. It will save you time any time you make a fresh install. Second, may I ask what use you give to your Windows? I mean, why you keep a dual boot? Cheers, Sylvia -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: partition management in dual-boot laptop / limited space

2016-01-06 Thread Ian Malone
On 6 January 2016 at 22:14, Chris Murphy wrote: > You could use LVM thin p for / and /home. > > The advantage is LV sizes are virtual, and can be larger than the VG. So > it's an on demand pool of extents, assigned when needed by whichever LV. > > The installer won't let

Re: partition management in dual-boot laptop / limited space

2016-01-06 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/06/2016 02:21 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: Simpler is certainly no LVM, and single volume (combined root and home). And do directory based backup of home. Safest, however, is two partitions, without LVM: / and /home. That way, you can re-install from scratch if you have to without worrying

Re: partition management in dual-boot laptop / limited space

2016-01-06 Thread Chris Murphy
Simpler is certainly no LVM, and single volume (combined root and home). And do directory based backup of home. Gaming, probably need to dual boot. Otherwise use a VM. If you haven't tried it, GNOME Boxes is fast and easy to use for this. It's been included in live installs for some time, ready

Re: partition management in dual-boot laptop / limited space

2016-01-06 Thread Sylvia Sánchez
I disabled SELinux. It gets on my nerves. I've a dual boot in my laptop, but it's just for a warranty thing. It's squeezed in a 30GB partition. And for the next Fedora release it will be wiped. Glad you find a solution that suits you. Cheers, Sylvia -- users mailing list

Re: partition management in dual-boot laptop / limited space

2016-01-06 Thread Ian Malone
On 6 January 2016 at 23:56, Sylvia Sánchez wrote: > First, I strongly recommend to put /home in a separated partition. It > will save you time any time you make a fresh install. Yes, it's how I've got my desktop set up, previously my laptop didn't have enough space to make

Re: partition management in dual-boot laptop / limited space

2016-01-06 Thread Ian Malone
On 6 January 2016 at 20:14, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 06:23:55PM +, Ian Malone wrote: >> I can only see the windows in a vm helping >> in this situation if there's a neat way to give it fairly transparent >> access to a filesystem on the host machine. > >

Re: partition management in dual-boot laptop / limited space

2016-01-06 Thread Tim
Rick Stevens: >> Referring to your original post, I don't really see a huge benefit to >> having separate / and /home partitions unless you're planning to do >> partition-based backups and restores. Back in the day when we backed up >> to tape and such with limited capacities, it made sense. Now

Re: partition management in dual-boot laptop / limited space

2016-01-06 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 06:23:55PM +, Ian Malone wrote: > On 6 January 2016 at 17:01, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 13:30 +, Ian Malone wrote: > >> Is there any less drastic approach? > > > > You don't really explain your use case. I find it's