Fedora 26 auto partition
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For a 500gb disk, is there any reason to not accept this setup?
Should /home be on a separate VG?What if we add another 1TB disk, that should be on a separate VG?
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Separate VG? Can you try that picture again?
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You sure that is a different VG, just normal LVs there.
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Separate home is definitely not required but is supper common for a default. Every major distro that I've seen does it if you have any amount of space.
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@scottalanmiller said in Fedora 26 auto partition:
You sure that is a different VG, just normal LVs there.
That's my question, should /home (or whatever name we give it) be on a separate VG?
You are correct, there is no different VG in that image. -
@FATeknollogee said in Fedora 26 auto partition:
@scottalanmiller said in Fedora 26 auto partition:
You sure that is a different VG, just normal LVs there.
That's my question, should /home (or whatever name we give it) be on a separate VG?
You are correct, there is no different VG in that image.Depends on your use case. It's a default for a reason, but in a large setup, you normally want to design your own storage.
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@FATeknollogee said in Fedora 26 auto partition:
For a 500gb disk, is there any reason to not accept this setup?
Should /home be on a separate VG?What if we add another 1TB disk, that should be on a separate VG?
I'm going to say, use the least amount of VG that makes sense. I don't see why a separate VG for /home would be needed. A separate LV, yes. That's mostly because of how the breakdown happens with VG being assigned physical devices (PV).
Depending on the use case, you may or may not want /home to have all the "extra" space, but that can easily be changed.
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@FATeknollogee said in Fedora 26 auto partition:
For a 500gb disk, is there any reason to not accept this setup?
Should /home be on a separate VG?What if we add another 1TB disk, that should be on a separate VG?
If you do keep the default partition and want to use KVM, you will have to store the virtual disks in /home. Or during install, you remove /home and give the rest back to /.
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@black3dynamite said in Fedora 26 auto partition:
@FATeknollogee said in Fedora 26 auto partition:
For a 500gb disk, is there any reason to not accept this setup?
Should /home be on a separate VG?What if we add another 1TB disk, that should be on a separate VG?
If you do keep the default partition and want to use KVM, you will have to store the virtual disks in /home. Or during install, you remove /home and give the rest back to /.
It's LVM, so you can always resize.
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@black3dynamite said in Fedora 26 auto partition:
@FATeknollogee said in Fedora 26 auto partition:
For a 500gb disk, is there any reason to not accept this setup?
Should /home be on a separate VG?What if we add another 1TB disk, that should be on a separate VG?
If you do keep the default partition and want to use KVM, you will have to store the virtual disks in /home. Or during install, you remove /home and give the rest back to /.
Why? On my desktop I keep my vdisk on a separate drive mounted as
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@JaredBusch said in Fedora 26 auto partition:
@black3dynamite said in Fedora 26 auto partition:
@FATeknollogee said in Fedora 26 auto partition:
For a 500gb disk, is there any reason to not accept this setup?
Should /home be on a separate VG?What if we add another 1TB disk, that should be on a separate VG?
If you do keep the default partition and want to use KVM, you will have to store the virtual disks in /home. Or during install, you remove /home and give the rest back to /.
Why? On my desktop I keep my vdisk on a separate drive mounted as
/kvm_store.It makes sense to resize or choose a larger partition when you don't have another drive available.
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@black3dynamite said in Fedora 26 auto partition:
@JaredBusch said in Fedora 26 auto partition:
@black3dynamite said in Fedora 26 auto partition:
@FATeknollogee said in Fedora 26 auto partition:
For a 500gb disk, is there any reason to not accept this setup?
Should /home be on a separate VG?What if we add another 1TB disk, that should be on a separate VG?
If you do keep the default partition and want to use KVM, you will have to store the virtual disks in /home. Or during install, you remove /home and give the rest back to /.
Why? On my desktop I keep my vdisk on a separate drive mounted as
/kvm_store.It makes sense to resize or choose a larger partition when you don't have another drive available.
The whole point of LVM is to make everything easy to change latter should you need to.
