On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 12:33 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Saturday 05 December 2009, Wayne Feick wrote:
>On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 11:30 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Folderol even. My objection to LVM is two fold.
>>
>> 1. It won't allow one to save things in the /home tree when doing an
>> upgrade or re-install. I have an almost 10GB corpus of email, and
>> several scripts that are needed for my daily operations that need to be
>> preserved. LVM makes that impossible.
>
>Can you elaborate? I use LVM on all my systems, and whenever I move to a
>new Fedora release I carry the old /home tree forward to the new
>installation.
>
>Wayne.
And just how do you do that? The last time I tried to save /home, anaconda
would not proceed until I checked the format it box. As I'm an alpha test
site for amanda, the recovery was doable and was done, but what kind of
twisted reasoning gives anaconda the right to demand I destroy my data?
Well, nothing (unless it's on a partition that has to be formatted for
an install, like /).
And I've never had that problem. If /home is a separate LV, in
Anaconda, select the PV with the /home LV inside it. You'll have to
reset the mount points for all the LVs (an annoyance, to be sure, that I
wish could be fixed), but you don't have to format /home (or /opt,
or /usr/local, etc.) if it is a separate LV (or if it's on a separate
partition).
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs