Re: Disk Druid - Fedora flame #1

From: Matthew Miller (mattdm_at_mattdm.org)
Date: 01/18/05

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    On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 11:20:56PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
    > Excuse me! Then why the hell didn't it use the existing ones already
    > defined as /boot, /dos, /root, /home, /, /opt and /usr, but without
    > labels as I don't use an initrd? There was no room to fit anything
    > else, the disk was fully utilized prior to DD ever looking at it.

    How is it supposed to psychically know this? Fdisk certainly wouldn't have
    any such magic powers.

    > Somehow I feel like I'm taking to a wall here, but the echos aren't
    > related to what I'm saying. And what I'm saying is that DD is dane
    > bramaged beyond repair, take it away.

    You want to write a replacement? If it works better, I bet we can get it
    accepted into anaconda for FC5 and maybe even FC4. Just ranting that
    something should be ditched doesn't help unless there's a viable
    replacement.

    > Thats pure, green, still warm and as found behind the male of the
    > bovine species. If I want /dev/hda1 to be the boot partition, then I
    > damned well want /dev/hda1 to be used as the /boot partition, I don't
    > need it moved to /dev/hda5 and given several gigabytes at a location
    > that may well be beyond the reach of the bios to boot from.

    /boot should automatically be forced as primary -- if it wasn't, that's
    probably a bug that should be reported and fixed. Likewise, it shouldn't be
    configured to grow beyond a few hundred megs. I'm puzzled as to how this
    could happen unless a) there's a bug which could be repaired or b) you
    actually changed the settings for the /boot partition or c) you told it to
    make a /boot partition manually, but didn't tell it any anything about any
    special requirements. 

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