On 12/3/2011 9:00 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2011/12/03 11:08 (GMT-0500) Anton Aylward composed:
But my experience with beginners is that they don't know enough to know what they want and their uncertainty about committing to a fixed disk partitioning is one thing that seems to bother them.
Another thing seems to bother them is waiting for requested help. I purposely delayed my response to the OP to see what anyone else might have to say first. After a 12 hour wait I proceeded, as apparently no one else saw fit to respond.
Well, if you have nothing depending on a new install, blowing it away and restarting is not that bad, especially when installs go very quickly. Having done it the first time, the second time is easier. Expecting 24/7 instant response is unreasonable. This is an English list, and most of Europe does not bother reading it, so when North America is sleeping and the Aussies are going to bed you end up waiting 12 hours. Its not a big deal. I had to expand a virtual machine's hard drive (easy enough) and expand the partitions (a bit harder) just yesterday. Two Minutes on Google found me a tutorial on Modify Your Partitions With GParted Without Losing Data located at http://www.howtoforge.com/partitioning_with_gparted Booting from Knoppix or Gparted LiveCD had this finished in minutes. Absolutely Flawless. (I already had backups, since it was a virtual machine I was expanding, and I back them up routinely). LVM woud have allowed the same capability. Still there are things about LVM that I don't like. 1) it leaves your partitioning mistakes in place, and papers over them with yet another layer 2) It opens you to files and directories being split across physical partitions where you may lose a part of them rendering the whole unusable depending on how your files are arranged 3) People with multiple drives end up using LVM like raid 0, - see 2 above (I've been bitten by #3 in the past. Someone decided to grow the file system to multiple small disks using LVM, one fails, and the entire logical volume is toast because associated files were scattered. In the end, repartitioning is probably best for the Noob, it gives them experience, and education, and gives them time to learn to use LVM the right way. -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org