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On Jul 15, 2013 9:56 PM, "Richard Vickery" <<a href="mailto:richard.vickeryrv@gmail.com">richard.vickeryrv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Jul 15, 2013 8:33 PM, "lee" <<a href="mailto:lee@yun.yagibdah.de">lee@yun.yagibdah.de</a>> wrote:<br>
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> > Richard Vickery <<a href="mailto:richard.vickeryrv@gmail.com">richard.vickeryrv@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
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> > > the installation program gives you everything you need to have an<br>
> > > operational system; after you have it installed:<br>
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> > > fdisk<br>
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> > > is the command to create your much needed / loved partitions that the<br>
> > > installer did not.<br>
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> > Well ok, in that case you may be better off running fdisk /before/<br>
> > installing so that you can install the system onto the partitions you<br>
> > want right away. The installer --- since it comes as part of a live<br>
> > system --- gives you everything you need for that.<br>
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> > The question is whether you can get it to use the partitions you<br>
> > created. That was difficult enough even without RAID or LVM.<br>
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> > In case I want to install more distributions or a fallback Fedora, I<br>
> > need to tell their installers again where to install what. A universal<br>
> > partitioning tool could save me that.<br>
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> > --<br>
> > Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat)<br>
> > --<br>
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> There is no real difference between pre-installation and disk / cfdisk, and all post-partitions are as usable as pre-install work.<br>
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> Why question it? If you are interested in what I see as unnecesary partitions, just do it.<br>
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> You are asking the wrong person. I quit worrying about pre-partitioning a 15 years ago because there is no reason to do it anymore. The installer gives the user all that person requires.<br>
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> If you really care, please email Adam Williamson for a more complete explanation.<br>
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> Go watch some YouTube videos on partitioning in Linux?</p>
<p>I don't go partitioning my hard drive anymore, and the installer created 2 for me.</p>
<p>I invite you to: man disk</p>