Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Mon Nov 15 02:46:00 UTC 2010


On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:42:05PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

> This is a problem of partitions themselves being very inflexible.
> Have said that I don't really understand why you'd ever want to do
> this.  "In a consulting environment" you're much more likely to
> encounter some other mechanism for creating LUNs of the right size on
> demand, ie. SANs.

It's also a problem of our user-friendly tools being woefully poor at 
dealing with LVM. I can resize a filesystem-containing partition far 
more straightforwardly than I can an LVM-containing one.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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