On Sat, 29 Oct 2016 13:58:22 +0200
Saša Janiška <gour(a)atmarama.com> wrote:
Hello,
I’m new Fedora (f25-beta) user considering to fully (after having
Fedora on my netbook) migrate to Fedora.
May the force be with you. ;-)
At the moment I run Debian (Sid) and have two hard disks: 1x1TB and
1x2TB (one old 1TB disk recently died) and have the following layout:
sda: 1 - BIOS boot
2 - md-raid1 (root, xfs)
3 - md-raid1 (home, xfs)
sdb: 1 - BIOS boot
2 - md-raid1 (root, xfs)
3 - md-raid1 (home, xfs)
4 - swap
5 - backup partition
Now I’ve a feeling that, somehow, Fedora favours usage of LVM
partitions…Otoh, I’ve been told that using LVM on top of RAID(1) might
not be the best solution, so wonder whether you recommend to keep the
same layout as on Debian or to put my raid-1 volumes in LVM
containers?
I don't know about the raid question, since I don't use raid. I think
the installer automatically selects lvm if you let it, but I never do.
I always use a custom install to pre-created partitions (and never
install over the currently working version, to save lots of hassle and
headache if problems occur). The upgrade becomes a much more relaxed
process when there is a working alternative available.
Another concern I have is in regard to separate /boot partition
which
I was not using on Linux for quite some time, but see that Fedora’s
automatic layout does create it?
I don't use a /boot under root, and haven't with Fedora, so I'm not
sure if that is a problem or not. Until you asked your question, I
hadn't even thought about the fact that /boot could be in the /
partition, though I knew it. I use a separate 1 G boot partition for
each linux OS I have installed. Maybe someone else can speak to this.
There must have been a reason lost in the mists of time. And probably
inapplicable now, given how much change there has been.
Using a custom layout, and not allocating a /boot partition should work
for this in the installer, too. I can't see a reason it wouldn't, and
if it does you don't have to worry about it.