Somebody in the thread at some point said: > 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! It's transparent unless it breaks. I do the same as you advise here, throw out LVM at install time. All the machines here are laptops with only Fedora as the bootable OS, and everything but /boot in one / partition, so LVM is a completely senseless default. -Andy