Reasons to preseve X on tty7

Felix Miata mrmazda at ij.net
Wed Oct 29 14:14:23 UTC 2008


On 2008/10/29 14:35 (GMT+0100) Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski composed:

> On Wednesday, 29 October 2008 at 13:42, Brian Wheeler wrote:

>> IDE drives aren't /dev/hd* anymore.

> That was relatively painless if you used labels.

If you used labels, and if you did not use partitions as a backup strategy,
and if you did not use partitions for multibooting various distros, in which
case you had to either quit using Fedora altogether, or add a bunch of disks.

>> We're using LVM instead of raw partitions.

> Thankfully anaconda still lets you use raw partitions. Who said I need LVM?
> I don't see any advantages in using it.

The only advantage I found in LVM (not that ostensible others don't exist)
was in getting around the libata/scsi 14 partition per HD limit. I found that
advantage overwhelmed by LVM's inability to synergize with my backup strategy
and multiboot. So now instead of having current Fedora on lots of machines
that actually get used, I have Rawhide on one box that sees little use other
than to check on what's going on in Rawhide; F8 on one box with a 2nd HD with
only 11 partitions; and F7 or older on a few others, all of which have >15
partitions.
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