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

[Reindl Harald]

Am 15.07.2013 19:56, schrieb Richard Vickery:
> On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 9:57 PM, lee <lee at yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
>> Richard Vickery <richard.vickeryrv at gmail.com> writes:
>>>> If I had had disks with data on them when I tried out the installer, I
>>>> wouldn't have clicked on that Done button, either.
>>>
>>> Why not install it and make partitions at a later time?
>>
>> Does the installer support creating a file system directly on a device
>> without partitioning it?
>>
>> Even if it does, how do you later make partitions on a device that
>> contains a file system and no partitions?
>>
> the installation program gives you everything you need to have an
> operational system; after you have it installed:
> 
> fdisk
> 
> is the command to create your much needed / loved partitions that the
> installer did not. Once upon a time there was even a GUI partition
> maker that may of may not still exist

way too late for many setups

that works for ordinary setups but not for complexer
intented to run over many years without re-install

the system below was installed with Fedora 14 in 2011

Filesystem     Type  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md1       ext4   29G  6.0G   23G  21% /
/dev/md0       ext4  477M   30M  447M   7% /boot
/dev/md2       ext4  3.6T  1.6T  2.0T  46% /mnt/data

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/dev/md0:
        Version : 1.0
  Creation Time : Wed Jun  8 13:10:48 2011
     Raid Level : raid1
     Array Size : 511988 (500.07 MiB 524.28 MB)
  Used Dev Size : 511988 (500.07 MiB 524.28 MB)
   Raid Devices : 4
  Total Devices : 4
    Persistence : Superblock is persistent
    Update Time : Mon Jul 15 00:15:41 2013
          State : clean
 Active Devices : 4
Working Devices : 4
 Failed Devices : 0
  Spare Devices : 0

           Name : localhost.localdomain:0
           UUID : 1d691642:baed26df:1d197496:4fb00ff8
         Events : 521

    Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
       0       8       49        0      active sync   /dev/sdd1
       5       8       33        1      active sync   /dev/sdc1
       4       8        1        2      active sync   /dev/sda1
       3       8       17        3      active sync   /dev/sdb1
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/dev/md1:
        Version : 1.1
  Creation Time : Wed Jun  8 13:10:52 2011
     Raid Level : raid10
     Array Size : 30716928 (29.29 GiB 31.45 GB)
  Used Dev Size : 15358464 (14.65 GiB 15.73 GB)
   Raid Devices : 4
  Total Devices : 4
    Persistence : Superblock is persistent
  Intent Bitmap : Internal
    Update Time : Mon Jul 15 22:31:58 2013
          State : active
 Active Devices : 4
Working Devices : 4
 Failed Devices : 0
  Spare Devices : 0
         Layout : near=2
     Chunk Size : 512K
           Name : localhost.localdomain:1
           UUID : b7475879:c95d9a47:c5043c02:0c5ae720
         Events : 11793

    Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
       0       8       50        0      active sync   /dev/sdd2
       5       8       34        1      active sync   /dev/sdc2
       4       8        2        2      active sync   /dev/sda2
       3       8       18        3      active sync   /dev/sdb2
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/dev/md2:
        Version : 1.1
  Creation Time : Wed Jun  8 13:10:56 2011
     Raid Level : raid10
     Array Size : 3875222528 (3695.70 GiB 3968.23 GB)
  Used Dev Size : 1937611264 (1847.85 GiB 1984.11 GB)
   Raid Devices : 4
  Total Devices : 4
    Persistence : Superblock is persistent
  Intent Bitmap : Internal
    Update Time : Mon Jul 15 22:32:03 2013
          State : active
 Active Devices : 4
Working Devices : 4
 Failed Devices : 0
  Spare Devices : 0
         Layout : near=2
     Chunk Size : 512K
           Name : localhost.localdomain:2
           UUID : ea253255:cb915401:f32794ad:ce0fe396
         Events : 305189

    Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
       0       8       51        0      active sync   /dev/sdd3
       5       8       35        1      active sync   /dev/sdc3
       4       8        3        2      active sync   /dev/sda3
       3       8       19        3      active sync   /dev/sdb3

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