On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 13:23 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 10:45 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > >> I've been a Linux admin for well over 15 years and I've yet to see > >> when > >> I really _need_ root to have a GUI. > > > > The only convincing use case I've ever come up with is resizing > > the /home partition using a graphical partition tool; you can't do that > > with su from a user account because the partition will obviously be > > busy. =) but it's sufficiently niche that 'just run startx from runlevel > > 3' is really enough to cover it. or, y'know, 'use a live CD'. > > I suppose I'm old school, but I have a tendency to not resize partitions > on a machine in any multiuser state. Just don't trust it. LVM and such > do make it more reliable, but I'd only do it in single user mode, so GUI > is out anyway. Belt and braces, belt and braces (as far as futzing with > disks on live systems is concerned anyway)... I've always been more happy-go-lucky, which is probably why I lost my entire /home partition to an unfortunate ReiserFS resizing accident a few years back. The accident was to try and resize a ReiserFS partition. For the record, don't. :) (I also once dd'ed a floppy disk image over the first 1.44MB of my root partition. /dev/sda and /dev/sdb are so *similar*, after all. Darn USB floppy drives. It's a good thing no-one's paying me to do quality assurance on the operating system they trust all their data to, really. That'd be a damn silly thing to do...) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
