low-hanging fruit

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Fri Aug 17 15:27:16 UTC 2007


On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:21:54 -0400
David Zeuthen <davidz at redhat.com> wrote:

> Apparently members of your target audience knows how to use LVM (and
> hopefully they know that it's lvextend, not lv_extend :-).... and is
> able to make a distinction between a PV, LV and VG's? Or.. wait..
> maybe they follow one of the "HOWTO's" out there and maybe get it
> right the 2nd or 3rd time they try. I certainly have blown up my PV's
> and LV's playing around with LVM.. Right.. Also.. it's supposed to be
> "fun" and "we learn about Linux" dealing with UNIX command line tools
> specifically designed to be unforgiving [1]. Right... _that_ target
> audience. 
> 
> I don't think so.

To be fair, system-config-lvm has come a long way recently and is quite
usable I'm told, and not at all unfriendly.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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