Preupgrade??

[Marcel Rieux]

On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Kevin J. Cummings <
cummings at kjchome.homeip.net> wrote:

> On 05/02/2010 11:23 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote:
> > I have selected my disk partitioning for a long time and  when new
> > wizardry comes along, I always wonder how much help it's going to be. In
> > most cases, for a desktop, here, I'd say "none".
> >
> >     > I believe there should be a page on FedoraProject to explain how
> >     to get
> >     > rid of that ext3 /boot partition. Of course, for most people, I
> >     suppose
> >     > it won't be much of an issue for most users but, when a 500 MB boot
> >     > partition is now suggested for /boot -- which 25 times my first
> >     HD! --,
> >     > it certainly doesn't look very clean.
> >
> >     Knowledge of this sort is a dangerous weapon.  It is known by those
> who
> >     understand it and are willing to possibly shoot themselves in the
> foot
> >     because they know what they are doing.  When you get to that stage,
> you
> >     will understand.
> >
> >
> > There are some solutions here:
> >
> >
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_PreUpgrade#Not_enough_space_in_.2Fboot
> >
> > but you think they're unsafe?
>
> That's not what I said.  I said I've been using Fedora and RedHat long
> before things like LVM existed.  I'm more comfortable without them at
> times, especially after I got burned by a disk failure while using LVM.
>

Oops! Disk failures happen. You had problems doing a restore?

Whatever the case may be, it seems to me LVM shouldn't be thrown at newbies
for the desktop. I certainly will keep away from it as much as I can.


> You decide what you are willing to live with
>

I, as most desktop users, am willing to live with as little problems as
possible. :) I don't believe LVM is part of this.
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