Hi all,
I have been using Fedora for many years now, I'm generally very happy with it. I'm also positively surprised and comforted by this mailing list: the Fedora community is well alive and rocking :)
With that preamble, it's obvious I'm writing about a few problems I have with Fedora 11 :)
1) During installation (fresh installation from a Fedora 9 system), I chose "custom layout" and chose to leave /home and /opt alone. I also chose to leave another disk alone. To my surprise, once booted, I found that not only /home was deleted, but Fedora automatically used the other disk as a raid array... so I lost all that data as well. I surely would have liked an explicit option NOT to do that. Also, the disk mirrored is 75 GB. But the other disk was 300 GB. How can I use the remaining 225 GB?
2) During installation, I wish I had the choice to make SE Linux optional. As it was with previous releases.
3) This might not be Fedora-related, but I'm finding that the disk mounting is getting a bit complicated with time. I miss the days where fstab was easier to read and modify, and there were no layers between me and /dev/sda, etc (I'm talking about labels, uuid, etc). Also, there seems to be no more exact correlation between what fdisk see and what I can mount.
4) Still regarding disk mounting: I have an external hard drive that with Fedora 9 I could manually mount/dismount. That disk was in sleep mode when not used. It doesn't go in sleep mode anymore. Also, fdisk -l doesn't see it unless I mount it via the "external devices" button.
Is there any chance to see these issues addressed? From my point of view, all of the above issues were non-existent before, so it's kind of a "downgrade".
thanks for the attention, mauri
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 08:47:07AM -0400, Maurizio Ungaro wrote:
Hi all,
I have been using Fedora for many years now, I'm generally very happy with it. I'm also positively surprised and comforted by this mailing list: the Fedora community is well alive and rocking :)
With that preamble, it's obvious I'm writing about a few problems I have with Fedora 11 :)
- During installation (fresh installation from a Fedora 9 system), I
chose "custom layout" and chose to leave /home and /opt alone. I also chose to leave another disk alone. To my surprise, once booted, I found that not only /home was deleted, but Fedora automatically used the other disk as a raid array... so I lost all that data as well.
Yikes, that should not be happening. Did you report a bug in Bugzilla, and attach your install.log and install.log.syslog in the bug?
I surely would have liked an explicit option NOT to do that. Also, the disk mirrored is 75 GB. But the other disk was 300 GB. How can I use the remaining 225 GB?
If disks are set up in a mirror, you're generally restricted to the size of the original disk. If you set up *partitions* in a mirror, though, you have more flexibility.
- During installation, I wish I had the choice to make SE Linux
optional. As it was with previous releases.
There's practically no reason for it now -- I run in enforcing mode all the time and I can't remember the last time I even noticed, let alone had a problem. That doesn't mean there aren't SELinux policy improvements waiting to be made. If you encounter a bug, file it, because we do send out policy updates quickly to fix them.
- This might not be Fedora-related, but I'm finding that the disk
mounting is getting a bit complicated with time. I miss the days where fstab was easier to read and modify, and there were no layers between me and /dev/sda, etc (I'm talking about labels, uuid, etc). Also, there seems to be no more exact correlation between what fdisk see and what I can mount.
Things are generally handled with labels now, which are more flexible and don't rely on easily-broken device names like /dev/sda. Also, there's a /dev/disk/* area you can use which I find is really helpful when I'm looking for a specific disk. I don't have to know whether it's sda, sdb, sdf... which is good, especially now that 187-in-1 media readers (or whatever it's up to today) are so popular!
- Still regarding disk mounting: I have an external hard drive that
with Fedora 9 I could manually mount/dismount. That disk was in sleep mode when not used. It doesn't go in sleep mode anymore. Also, fdisk -l doesn't see it unless I mount it via the "external devices" button.
Hm, that's interesting, because I have an external hard drive on a machine here that does sleep just like it should when unused. So it's not a system wide problem. Do you have any processes running which might be using the drive?
On 09/16/2009 11:56 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 08:47:07AM -0400, Maurizio Ungaro wrote:
Hi all,
I have been using Fedora for many years now, I'm generally very happy with it. I'm also positively surprised and comforted by this mailing list: the Fedora community is well alive and rocking :)
With that preamble, it's obvious I'm writing about a few problems I have with Fedora 11 :)
- During installation (fresh installation from a Fedora 9 system), I
chose "custom layout" and chose to leave /home and /opt alone. I also chose to leave another disk alone. To my surprise, once booted, I found that not only /home was deleted, but Fedora automatically used the other disk as a raid array... so I lost all that data as well.
Yikes, that should not be happening. Did you report a bug in Bugzilla, and attach your install.log and install.log.syslog in the bug?
Funny you mention that, Ive had the same problem Fedora 9, 10, 11 and 12 won't install to a pre partitioned hard drive that has a linux installation on my machine. They will only install to the default.
Roger