/ must be on a partition or LV that will be formatted. Reusing an existing / is not allowed.

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 12:34 +0200, Karel Volný wrote:

> > > Because I never saw reason to do so. Having / and /home on
> > > the same partition saves you from problems with
> > > insufficient disk space in one place and too much space in
> > > the second place.
> > 
> > So does LVM, which is exactly why we started using it by
> > default. Resizing an LVM 'partition' is extremely simple to
> > do and very safe. If you find you got the sizes of / and
> > /home wrong, just change 'em.
> 
> you forget the condition that LVM is (better say "could be") 
> simple only if *all* distros you use support that ...

I don't know of any major distro that doesn't support LVMs. They may not
use them in the installer by default...

> I don't know Kamil's exact usecase, but in general, if you have 
> just one disk, which I guess is the majority case, why to bother 
> with creating multiple partitions then resize them "just because 
> you can do it with LVM"?
> (no need to answer this question ...)

Because it's the correct way to be able to keep /home while wiping / .
Simple enough answer?

> > > The only concern I ever had for my layout is whether the
> > > next distro installer would be smart enough to let me skip
> > > formatting of the / partition. Therefore I'm not thrilled
> > > to see Anaconda go the other way.
> > 
> > Anaconda team consider skipping format of / to be a *dumb*
>                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > thing to do, not a smart one...
> 
> but that is not the thing Kamil called "smart" ;-)

Um, yes it is? "The only concern I ever had for my layout is whether the
next distro installer would be smart enough to let me skip formatting of
the / partition."
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