[Mageia-dev] time to switch from raw partitions to lvm?

Tue Feb 22 03:36:07 CET 2011

2011/2/21 Buchan Milne <bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net>:
+> On Monday, 21 February 2011 11:49:27 Thomas Lottmann wrote:
+>> I am still not convinced of how easy this can be. For having attempted
+>> to manage (and learn) how to manage LVM partitons with CentOS, it is
+>> quite complicated. So it certainly has many advantages, but I'm awaiting
+>> an intuitive disk manager like Diskdrake to manage this stuff without
+>> the need of preliminary knowledge.
+>
+> Yes, with diskdrake, it's no problem. Anaconda's LVM interface is quite
+> confusing and complex. After installation, AFAIK, you can't access the same
+> interface. system-config-lvm (if it's still around) was also pretty unusable.
+>
+> But, we have diskdrake, so why are the problems of CentOS an issue?
+
+Because (as I remarked earlier) there are people who have other Linux
+flavors on their harddisk before they try Mageia - what if they do
+their partitioning with those (i.e. CentOS)?
+
+Again, people do not work all the same. There are people who do their
+partitioning with 3rd-party apps like gparted or others. There are
+people who like to have a bootloader in the root partition of each
+Linux they install (using chainloader in the first Linux' grub), etc.
+
+IMHO it is a bad idea to make LVM default, because there are too many
+cases around where people would not want LVM. LVM as an option is a
+far better solution and let the user decide what he wants.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+