I recently acquired a large (300GB) disk for my SCSI machine, and decided to install FC-5 on it. I wasn't sure how to partition such a large disk, so decided to use LVM. I worked out what LVM "partitions", or rather logical volumes, I wanted, and created a Logical Group (on /dev/sdb6) with these LVs. However, when I installed FC-5 these LVs were all deleted, and two LVs - for / and swap - created instead. I'm going to shrink the 250GB LV allotted to / but I don't understand why FC-5 does not allow me to specify how I want my disk organized. Incidentally, I didn't find the official LVM-HOWTO at <http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/> very helpful. At least half of it was concerned with LVM1, or how to move from LVM1 to LVM2, while LVM2 has been out for several years now, I think. Of the remaining half, at least one half of this was taken up with compiling LVM, an exercise which I imagine only a tiny fraction of Linux users would indulge ib. The short section on shrinking LVs only mentioned ext2, not ext3. I found the unofficial LVM-HOWTO at <http://www.hccfl.edu/pollock/AUnix1/LVM.htm> far more useful. I don't mind the installation suggesting a partitioning scheme, but I think it ought to allow users to decide for themselves. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
