Pascal Bleser wrote:
Fedora (at least on FC4) is taking another interesting direction: from what I've heard, they seem to automatically propose the default partitioning setup with LVM. (I didn't say SUSE should do that as well, I said "interesting" ;)). Has a number of pros and cons.
As long as software-related constructions like LVM keeps stable (i.e. no heavy changes of internal structures ...) that could be an idea. One problem could be as soon as you need to access your system for repair using another boot media and the LVM isn't compatible anymore ... Similar things apply to software-RAID as well. To sum up my thoughts: I will stay with "true" partitioning on the harddisk. Might be conservative somehow, but works for my situation pretty good ... Best regards, Reinhard.