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Colin Watson cjwatson at canonical.com
Thu Nov 11 13:34:56 CST 2004


On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 02:11:35PM -0500, Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 19:02 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > (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"?)
> 
> Not really. It adds complexity to the system,

Yes, but at exactly the right place where the system is currently, let's
be honest, a bit stupid really.

> and you cannot move partitions and install another OS on it anyway.

Sure you can, given a shrinkable filesystem.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]



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