On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 12:34 +0200, Karel Volný wrote: > > > Because I never saw reason to do so. Having / and /home on > > > the same partition saves you from problems with > > > insufficient disk space in one place and too much space in > > > the second place. > > > > So does LVM, which is exactly why we started using it by > > default. Resizing an LVM 'partition' is extremely simple to > > do and very safe. If you find you got the sizes of / and > > /home wrong, just change 'em. > > you forget the condition that LVM is (better say "could be") > simple only if *all* distros you use support that ... I don't know of any major distro that doesn't support LVMs. They may not use them in the installer by default... > I don't know Kamil's exact usecase, but in general, if you have > just one disk, which I guess is the majority case, why to bother > with creating multiple partitions then resize them "just because > you can do it with LVM"? > (no need to answer this question ...) Because it's the correct way to be able to keep /home while wiping / . Simple enough answer? > > > The only concern I ever had for my layout is whether the > > > next distro installer would be smart enough to let me skip > > > formatting of the / partition. Therefore I'm not thrilled > > > to see Anaconda go the other way. > > > > Anaconda team consider skipping format of / to be a *dumb* > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > thing to do, not a smart one... > > but that is not the thing Kamil called "smart" ;-) Um, yes it is? "The only concern I ever had for my layout is whether the next distro installer would be smart enough to let me skip formatting of the / partition." -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
