Patrick Bartek wrote: > --- On Mon, 7/19/10, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Patrick Bartek wrote: >>> --- On Tue, 7/13/10, Peter Diercks <di-listen@xxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >>>> I am running a server under F11. It is a remote >> machine >>>> which I have no >>>> physical access to. It has a network connection. I >> wanted >>>> to upgrade to >>>> F12 using preupgrade again, but this time I am >> afraid I'll >>>> run into >>>> problems due to the size of /boot (194M, 153M free >> space). >>>> >>>> Does anybody know if this issue has been fixed? >>> Not that I've heard. 500MB is still the "safe" >> minimum (from what I've read) for /boot for preupgrading. >>> Maybe, this will help: >>> >>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PreUpgrade >>> >>> FWIW: I've never had good luck with upgrading >> Fedora. For that reason, I've always done clean >> installs on separate partitions keeping the previous install >> and setting up a dual boot in case things go wrong. >> I normally hand configure storage, but on one old (FC6) >> machine I had let the >> installer do it, and a bunch of LVM stuff was used instead >> of partitions. This >> worked until I decided to replace the 64 bit FC6 with 64 >> bit FC13. The install >> went fine, and the old LVM stuff was still there, but it >> wouldn't boot any more. >> I copied the appropriate stanzas from the x86_FC6, and the >> kernel gets loaded, >> then it says it can't find the LVM parts to finish >> booting. >> >> The pv (one partition) has x86_{boot,root}_fc6 and >> x86_64_{boot,root}_fc13 LVs >> on it. I can mount the fc6 LVs just fine, just can't boot. >> >> The moral of this story is that the O.P. really means >> "separate partitions" not >> some spare LVs you have. Very sad, I really wanted to run >> both, since I have >> some software which was not upgraded past FC6. Today's >> warning. ;-) > > I don't use LVMs for the same reasons I don't "upgrade". After using Linux for 10 years, I've got partition sizes pretty much dialed-in, at least, for me, and always custom partition. I never let the installer decide. It always decides wrongly anyway. > > I never could see any advantage to LVMs (over "real" partitions) other than being able to resize them while they are mounted. > They do make it easy to move stuff to new hardware, that can be important as a time saving if you have to do it often. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- 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
