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Originally Posted by kevmif
What partition layout does everyone else use?
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Hello kevmif,
From experience reading here, I imagine that question will provoke answers up and down the spectrum of possibilities. I thought I would answer because I also happen to like the simple idea of root and swap. For a long time.
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Originally Posted by kevmif
I had a play with rawhide and hit 'create default layout' and it set up all of this LVM stuff and a /boot partition.
Whilst I understand how a boot partition can be useful in some circumstances (multiple installs with different kernels etc) what is all this LVM stuff it creates?
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Well, LVM is well documented on the Internet and fairly well debated around here. It has it proponents and opponents. For me and my simple home computers with operating systems that fit easily onto a single drive with room to spare, standard partitions continue to do the job that I need without the added layer of complexity from LVM physical volumes. It also makes it unnecessary for me to learn the vocabulary, commands, and utilities needed to maintain and repair them. But as to the boot partition part of your question...A separate boot partition always accompanies LVM physical volumes in the default Fedora layout because GRUB cannot access anything inside an LVM PV. Everything that GRUB needs to boot a system with that default LVM layout is contained in that separate boot partition. It can't boot a system in an LVM PV without it.
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