> > 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. I need a dual boot DOS and Linux box. Before LVM, I just installed a Linux distro (Ubuntu or Fedora), then gparted the ext down to make room for FreeDOS. Well, I tried that with Fe 7, and learned a lot (but not enough) about LVM. Unless I missed something, it is very, very hard to downsize a physical partition associated with LVM. I did a resize2fs to shrink the filesystem. Then I did a lvreduce to reduce the logical volume, and I ended up with the planned 3G unallocated within the physical partition after that, but try as I might, I could not get the physical partition to shrink. When I tried pvresize, even though I was supposed to have 3G unallocated within the physical partition, I kept getting an error and it refused to do the operation. I found this "pvresize will refuse to shrink PhysicalVolume if it has allocated extents after where its new end would be", but as I said I supposed had unallocated extents. Finally I just reinstalled Fe 7 with without LVM. I had an unusual application, and I can see where LVM might be great if you want to grow a (logical) volume to span hard drives. I can also see for the casual user who would never rezise his/her volumes, LVM is very transparent. Good luck!
