partitioning problems when trying to install Fedora Core 3

[Anton Markov]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 12:11:32PM -0500, James Knott wrote:
> 
>>Also, /home makes it easier to upgrade the OS, without clobbering your 
>>data or settings.
> 
> 
> How?  I know slackware in the past required reinstalling / and /usr to
> do an "upgrade", but with things like debian and redhat, and upgrade is
> just an upgrade and nothing in the installer during an upgrade should
> change /home.

But other freak incidents will. Three days ago either some memory error 
(I was playing with my BIOS settings) or a power fluctuation caused 
Linux to write garbage all over my '/usr' partition. Fortunately, I was 
able to simply re-format it and use APT to reinstall all my software, 
without loosing any configuration ('/etc' on root partition was intact), 
or data ('/home' is another partition too). If  I had used a single 
partition, I would be saying "bye, bye" to my data.

> 
> More partitions just means more places for partitions to be full while
> other partitions have lots of free space.  Not a good idea for new users
> (or even experienced ones in many cases).

In this case you can use LVM. It can take any combination of "physical 
volumes" (partitions, disks, RAID arrays, etc.), and split them up in 
any way you wish. That way you can create as many partitions as you need 
to split up your data by type, rather than how much space it takes up 
(i.e. '/usr' partition for programs, '/home' for your data, '/video' for 
all video work (using an XFS file system, for example, etc.). If you 
ever run out of space on one drive, you can take the space from another. 
If you buy a new hard drive, you can add its space to one of your 
existing partitions. A very useful.


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