partitioning (was: Re: [GW-C] [ECOTONE] Re: rant of the day: installing fedora)

[Cristian Sava]

On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 21:56 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote:
> 
> On Jul 15, 2013 8:33 PM, "lee" <lee at yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
> >
> > Richard Vickery <richard.vickeryrv at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > Well ok, in that case you may be better off running fdisk /before/
> > installing so that you can install the system onto the partitions
> you
> > want right away.  The installer --- since it comes as part of a live
> > system --- gives you everything you need for that.
> >
> > The question is whether you can get it to use the partitions you
> > created.  That was difficult enough even without RAID or LVM.
> >
> > In case I want to install more distributions or a fallback Fedora, I
> > need to tell their installers again where to install what.  A
> universal
> > partitioning tool could save me that.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat)
> > --
> 
> There is no real difference between pre-installation and disk /
> cfdisk, and all post-partitions are as usable as pre-install work.
> 
> Why question it? If you are interested in what I see as unnecesary
> partitions, just do it.
> 
> You are asking the wrong person. I quit worrying about
> pre-partitioning a 15 years ago because there is no reason to do it
> anymore. The installer gives the user all that person requires.
> 
> If you really care, please email Adam Williamson for a more complete
> explanation.
> 
> Go watch some YouTube videos on partitioning in Linux?
> 
The installer does not know GPT without LVM, so you need Gparted.

C. Sava