On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 15:37 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > -------- 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. ---- I completely don't understand what you are saying or what point you are trying to make. I'm sorry that I got involved - I'll let it go. Good luck. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- 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
