Fedora Users — Re: Preupgrade??

On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Kevin J. Cummings <cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 05/02/2010 11:23 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote:
> I have selected my disk partitioning for a long time and when new
> wizardry comes along, I always wonder how much help it's going to be. In
> most cases, for a desktop, here, I'd say "none".
>
> > I believe there should be a page on FedoraProject to explain how
> to get
> > rid of that ext3 /boot partition. Of course, for most people, I
> suppose
> > it won't be much of an issue for most users but, when a 500 MB boot
> > partition is now suggested for /boot -- which 25 times my first
> HD! --,
> > it certainly doesn't look very clean.
>
> Knowledge of this sort is a dangerous weapon. It is known by those who
> understand it and are willing to possibly shoot themselves in the foot
> because they know what they are doing. When you get to that stage, you
> will understand.
>
>
> There are some solutions here:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_PreUpgrade#Not_enough_space_in_.2Fboot
>
> but you think they're unsafe?

That's not what I said. I said I've been using Fedora and RedHat long
before things like LVM existed. I'm more comfortable without them at
times, especially after I got burned by a disk failure while using LVM.

Oops! Disk failures happen. You had problems doing a restore?

Whatever the case may be, it seems to me LVM shouldn't be thrown at newbies for the desktop. I certainly will keep away from it as much as I can.

You decide what you are willing to live with

I, as most desktop users, am willing to live with as little problems as possible. :) I don't believe LVM is part of this.

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