On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 12:33 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 05 December 2009, Wayne Feick wrote: > >On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 11:30 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Folderol even. My objection to LVM is two fold. > >> > >> 1. It won't allow one to save things in the /home tree when doing an > >> upgrade or re-install. I have an almost 10GB corpus of email, and > >> several scripts that are needed for my daily operations that need to be > >> preserved. LVM makes that impossible. > > > >Can you elaborate? I use LVM on all my systems, and whenever I move to a > >new Fedora release I carry the old /home tree forward to the new > >installation. > > > >Wayne. > > And just how do you do that? The last time I tried to save /home, anaconda > would not proceed until I checked the format it box. As I'm an alpha test > site for amanda, the recovery was doable and was done, but what kind of > twisted reasoning gives anaconda the right to demand I destroy my data? Well, nothing (unless it's on a partition that has to be formatted for an install, like /). And I've never had that problem. If /home is a separate LV, in Anaconda, select the PV with the /home LV inside it. You'll have to reset the mount points for all the LVs (an annoyance, to be sure, that I wish could be fixed), but you don't have to format /home (or /opt, or /usr/local, etc.) if it is a separate LV (or if it's on a separate partition). -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines