Same installation method but different results on 2 pcs

[tech291083]

Hi,

I have installed Fedora 17 LXDE spin 32+ bit distro on my desktop pc with 500 GB SATA HDD and then on my old Laptop having 40 GB HDD (probably an IDE) recently using the Use entire space option as my install method on both pc and laptop, but here is what I get in a terminal on both. The laptop installation on 40 GB HDD does not create the logical volume /home, while the desktop installation on a 500 GB HDD does, why so?

I never interfered with the default installation or created any partitions myself. I just let the default installation happen on both.

Laptop:

[root@localhost john]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders, total 78140160 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa949c12f

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *        2048     1026047      512000   83  Linux
/dev/sda2         1026048    78139391    38556672   8e  Linux LVM

Disk /dev/mapper/vg-lv_swap: 1040 MB, 1040187392 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 126 cylinders, total 2031616 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/mapper/vg-lv_root: 38.4 GB, 38419824640 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4670 cylinders, total 75038720 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Desktop:

[root@localhost john]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000d357f

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *        2048     1026047      512000   83  Linux
/dev/sda2         1026048   976773119   487873536   8e  Linux LVM

Disk /dev/mapper/vg-lv_swap: 5570 MB, 5570035712 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 677 cylinders, total 10878976 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/mapper/vg-lv_root: 53.7 GB, 53687091200 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 6527 cylinders, total 104857600 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/mapper/vg-lv_home: 440.3 GB, 440301256704 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 53530 cylinders, total 859963392 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Thanks a lot.

[Cygn]

that's anaconda doing the partitioning for you.
I guess it creates home only if it thinks that you've got a HD big enough, which is not the case on the 40GB.
You can take the manual partition route and create /home. 30GB should be enough for / so you can put the rest to /home. (+ swap)
If you don't want to reinstall, you can boot on a live and resize lv_root to create an additional lv for home.
You'll have to copy files over to the new partition and add that to your /etc/fstab manually as well.