[GW-C] [ECOTONE] Re: rant of the day: installing fedora

[Ian Malone]

On 14 July 2013 00:51, lee <lee at yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
> Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 12 July 2013 21:45, lee <lee at yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
>>> And there needs to be something like an option for extended partitioning
>>> that allows you to do whatever you want.  Having the installer do it for
>>> you is a nice option to have and it's not enough.
>>>
>>
>> On install from live discs at least there is definitely custom partitioning.
>
> Are you referring to the option the installer gives you to do your
> own/custom partitioning?  If so, you can do that, but you do not know
> where on the disks the partitions are being put --- or is there way to
> see and to decide that?
>

Okay, I didn't quite realise what you wanted. If you're talking about
block-level control of the partition creation you can't do that
(though it's probably a bit redundant these days). On the other hand I
think they should be created in the order they're displayed on the
partitioning screen, so that should just be a case of adding them in
the order you want.

>>> On a side note, you can now put /usr onto its own partition like it
>>> should be.
>>
>> Does anyone know whether this is a good idea given usrmove? Everything
>> in /bin is supposed to end up in /usr/bin so far as I know.
>
> When installing F17, the installer didn't let me put /usr onto its own
> partition.  The installer of F19 doesn't mind.  It may be a bad idea,
> yet it works.
>

Would be interested if someone could chip in on whether this is a good
idea or not. In the standard hierarchy it should be possible, but
usrmove has broken with that.

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