Speed up user login into desktop.

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Mon Aug 23 18:17:25 UTC 2010


On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:24:23PM -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On 08/23/10 12:20, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > Urks, LVM snapshots!
> > 
> > That said, I am pretty sure you have the consensus of the desktop group
> > now, as nobody defended LVM.
> 
> I agree that on laptops LVM is not all that useful.  But on desktops it is as
> it allows easy resizing and reallocation.
> 
> What I personally want to see our default auto-partitioning do is to create a
> separate '/' from /home, such that reinstallations don't wipe out /home.

This actually happens now on larger disks (bigger than 50 GB, IIRC),
as of Fedora 13.

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