On Saturday 17 March 2007, Timothy Murphy wrote: >Antonio Olivares wrote: >> The others might be good as well, but Fedora in the end is >> the best one, at least for me. > >It may be the best, but it can still be improved. >It is sad that my suggestion (as OP) that >Anaconda might be less than perfect >was met by screams of outrage >and suggestions that I must be a mole for another distribution. > >Anaconda is really pretty bad, in my opinion - >eg its love for the dreadful DiskDruid - >I'd give it beta minus if I were feeling generous. >It's easily the worst thing about Fedora. I'll confirm that, this DD way or hit the road, Jack, for another distro is something I've screamed about on this list since they switched many years ago, and now someone has thrown another can of gasoline on the embers. DD is an arrogant POS, something one expects to find in an M$ install. To illustrate, I have a 10GB partition on /dev/hdd2, precisely so I DO have a log in the event /dev/hda turns read-only. But if I actually want it there, I've got to shut down all services, rsync to it from the existing /var, edit my fstab to move it and reboot. Then the problem is, how to I recover the nearly 6GB of space its using on the LVM2 managed volume? It sounds as if maybe I should mount it to a new /mnt/hda/var directory before fstab mounts /dev/hdd2 as /var but I'm not sure if I can think straight enough to pull that off, or if LVM2 will let me. Maybe mount the whole LVM2 volume to a separate mountpoint? I dunno for sure. Once the move is done, the system is happier than a pig in a deep mudhole, so why the he!! won't DD just let me do it? Somebody who knows why, please explain that to me in not more than 3 syllable words. I want to make sure I get it right. >-- >Timothy Murphy >e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie >tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 >s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) A classic is something that everyone wants to have read and nobody wants to read. -- Mark Twain, "The Disappearance of Literature"
