On Sat, 29 Oct 2016 13:58:22 +0200 Saša Janiška gour@atmarama.com wrote:
Hello,
I’m new Fedora (f25-beta) user considering to fully (after having Fedora on my netbook) migrate to Fedora.
May the force be with you. ;-)
At the moment I run Debian (Sid) and have two hard disks: 1x1TB and 1x2TB (one old 1TB disk recently died) and have the following layout:
sda: 1 - BIOS boot 2 - md-raid1 (root, xfs) 3 - md-raid1 (home, xfs)
sdb: 1 - BIOS boot 2 - md-raid1 (root, xfs) 3 - md-raid1 (home, xfs) 4 - swap 5 - backup partition
Now I’ve a feeling that, somehow, Fedora favours usage of LVM partitions…Otoh, I’ve been told that using LVM on top of RAID(1) might not be the best solution, so wonder whether you recommend to keep the same layout as on Debian or to put my raid-1 volumes in LVM containers?
I don't know about the raid question, since I don't use raid. I think the installer automatically selects lvm if you let it, but I never do. I always use a custom install to pre-created partitions (and never install over the currently working version, to save lots of hassle and headache if problems occur). The upgrade becomes a much more relaxed process when there is a working alternative available.
Another concern I have is in regard to separate /boot partition which I was not using on Linux for quite some time, but see that Fedora’s automatic layout does create it?
I don't use a /boot under root, and haven't with Fedora, so I'm not sure if that is a problem or not. Until you asked your question, I hadn't even thought about the fact that /boot could be in the / partition, though I knew it. I use a separate 1 G boot partition for each linux OS I have installed. Maybe someone else can speak to this. There must have been a reason lost in the mists of time. And probably inapplicable now, given how much change there has been.
Using a custom layout, and not allocating a /boot partition should work for this in the installer, too. I can't see a reason it wouldn't, and if it does you don't have to worry about it.