On 2008/10/29 14:35 (GMT+0100) Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski composed:
On Wednesday, 29 October 2008 at 13:42, Brian Wheeler wrote:
> IDE drives aren't /dev/hd* anymore.
That was relatively painless if you used labels.
If you used labels, and if you did not use partitions as a backup strategy,
and if you did not use partitions for multibooting various distros, in which
case you had to either quit using Fedora altogether, or add a bunch of disks.
> We're using LVM instead of raw partitions.
Thankfully anaconda still lets you use raw partitions. Who said I
need LVM?
I don't see any advantages in using it.
The only advantage I found in LVM (not that ostensible others don't exist)
was in getting around the libata/scsi 14 partition per HD limit. I found that
advantage overwhelmed by LVM's inability to synergize with my backup strategy
and multiboot. So now instead of having current Fedora on lots of machines
that actually get used, I have Rawhide on one box that sees little use other
than to check on what's going on in Rawhide; F8 on one box with a 2nd HD with
only 11 partitions; and F7 or older on a few others, all of which have >15
partitions.
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