On Sunday 17 June 2007 11:17:04 Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2007-06-16 at 22:10 +0100, John bowden wrote: > > I'm just about to install F7 onto one of my machines. I have FC6 > > installed and happy on one of my boxes and Mandriva on another. I'm > > more used to managing FS:EXT3 or EXT2 partitions than FC6's LVM. If I > > set up the new box with FS:EXT3 at the partition stage will F7 have > > any problems? I have a 40Gb chunk of IDE and a 250Gb of SATA to play > > with. > > I ignored LVM and went for the traditional EXT3 partitions with FC7. > Didn't have any problems with that. I've, previously, had plenty of > problems with LVM, and I need to be able to *EASILY* put drives in and > out of different boxes, in different combinations, so I don't like LVM. > > -- > (This box runs Centos 5.0, my others still run FC 4, 5, 6, & 7, in case > that's important to the thread.) > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. > I read messages from the public lists. I do a lot of drive swapping, got a number of machines on my network to play with and always getting hold of second hand drives to play around with. I'm happy with FS:EXT3 and haven't found the time to get to know LVM. Just about to boot up now - finger crossed. -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of parliment with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240
