On Saturday 05 December 2009, Matthew Saltzman wrote: >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). I also tried that once, and convinced it I didn't want it formatted, about FC6 I think. It bought it I thought, till I found it had made a /home directory on /, the proceeded to write the new /home with its defaults. I took a bit of detective work to ascertain that my /home partition still existed, but wasn't ever used and was not in /etc/fstab as a separate entry. Dumb was NOT my comment when I found that. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> Pilfering Treasury property is paticularly dangerous: big thieves are ruthless in punishing little thieves. -- Diogenes -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
