Tim: >> If you're the sort that uses one huge partition for everything (and >> that does seem to be the recommendation, these days), *and* you >> never intend to add a second drive, then LVM is pointless to you. R. G. Newbury: > ONE HUGE PARTITION? I'd like to know who is crazy enough to recommend > that, because I would want to stay well away from him. That's *almost* > as bad as win(spit!). ;-) On this list, there's been some advocacy for /boot and /, and no more partitions. Even the installer defaults went that way (whether the / was LVM, or something else). There's even some who've not had a /boot (and we've had to guide them through why that worked the first time around, but not after the drive filled up a bit, and put things where the BIOS couldn't read the drive to begin booting). > I always set up my boxen with separate partitions for /boot, /home, > /tmp, /var and /. I've tended to do the same. Though gave into to just /boot and / for my laptop, as it's not easy to add another drive in a sane manner, so I may as well just use the whole drive in a simple manner. Not to mention that the drive's encrypted, so it's quite hard to do any sort of updates that aren't a complete wipe and restart, anyway. Keeping a /home between installs has some problems, too. You find that certain things don't like your old .configuration files. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines