Bonehead Move, LVM

[Andy Green]

Chris Jones wrote:
> Hi
> 
>> In the unlikely event I found myself with a system so trashed by a 
>> proposed later FC(n), I would simply nuke the dirs containing the bad 
>> OS and reinstall FC(n-1) doing a non-upgrade install.
> 
> At which point you *won't* have an FC(n-1) system the same as your 
> previous one, since you will have lost all the various updates and 
> system changes you had made :)

I will be able to keep all the "system changes" I choose: updates can be 
reapplied and a copy of cat /var/log/rpmpkgs will show me what else I 
need to recover.  Keeping my home dir and the bulk of /var will mean it 
is of limited horror as well.  However, I have been using Fedora since 
before FC1, only once did I get into a pickle that required nukage, that 
was trying to come off Development and back to the previous FCn.

> I guess we just disagree. To me is plain obvious that multiple 
> partitions and LVM are good things, and I am glad it is by default what 
> is used by the installer. I guess you disagree and that fine, good even, 
> since if we all agreed on everything life would be much duller :)

;-)  I think you might come to disagree too if you get faced with a 
broken drive and are kept away from the filesystem by an LVM wrapper 
that is only there for reasons that are very esoteric indeed at that 
moment.  Each to his own, but hopefully there is food for thought on 
this thread when it comes to giving advice to others.

-Andy