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[Colin Watson]

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On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 08:08:50PM +0100, Christian Bjälevik wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> >On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 06:06:35PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> >>We have things like lvm in the default install despite their non-use
> >>for desktops and laptops,
> >
> >(Actually, I'd *love* to have the "Erase entire disk" mode in the
> >installer set up LVM by default, or EVMS, or whatever. Wouldn't it be
> >great to be able to say to users "don't worry about your partition
> >layout; you can change it later"?)
> 
> I would actually *hate* that. I've run LVM two times and the damn thing 
> didn't ask me if I was sure what I was doing. Last time I erased my 
> entire 200GB full harddrive because LVM don't ask for confirmation on 
> inactive logical volumes. I accidently switched vg and lv in my 
> commandline. I'm determined never to run LVM anymore :-).

That's part of why I suggested maybe EVMS; as I understand it, the
admin-facing tools are much better.

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]