-------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: F13 - goodnewws and bad news Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 15:21:41 -0500 On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 08:32 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Sat, 2010-06-05 at 08:48 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-06-05 at 09:19 +0930, Tim wrote: > > > On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 15:42 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > > 2. For more than 15 years I have found that the GUI partition > > > > installer hard to use and in F13 it is even more impossible to use. > > > > This is mainly because the various options are hard to distinguish > > > > from one another. I know someone will say it was easy fo them but I > > > > challenge them in the basic configuration to remove the separation of > > > > root from home. > > > > > > Do you mean the root user space (typically /root)? That shouldn't be > > > inside /home, and that's not a partitioning issue. > > > > No, the basic disk structure created by the partitioner has separate LVM partitions for /root and > > /home. I wanted to combine them to a single LVM partition. I failed > > miserably. It does not make much sense what I wanted to do but I was > > frustrated that I couldn't do it. What I really wanted to do is to > > have the partitions other than swap in a single partition. I got that > > done but I am apprehensive about being able to do it again on my laptop > > which also has a Windows XP partition. I find the whole GUI partitioning > > application confusing. > ---- > /home and /root are not connected to each other and could only become > part of the same partition if the / filesystem were part of the > partition as that is the connection between them. Of course > putting /, /root and /home in the same LVM partition is actually the > default so what you are trying to do is nonsensical. But since you > admitted that what you are trying to do doesn't make any sense it seems > there is really no reason to complain that what your are trying to do > won't work. > > Craig But your conclusion that / is in the same partition as /root and /home does not correspond to what one sees in Figure 7.27 in the Installation Guide (see my other post) so your assertion makes no sense either. I should point out the fallacy with your analysis. If /, /root and /home are in the same partition then the size of the partition would be larger than the sum of the size of /root and /home. But they are exactly the same. -- ======================================================================= "Looks clean and obviously correct to me, but then _everything_ I write always looks obviously correct yo me." - Linus ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
