<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <pre wrap="">Hi Paul, wow that was fast. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Yikes, that should not be happening. Did you report a bug in Bugzilla, and attach your install.log and install.log.syslog in the bug?</pre> </blockquote> I'm too busy trying to recover it right now. Also, I don't have a install.log. I did find a anaconda.syslog if that's what you're referring too. <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">If disks are set up in a mirror, you're generally restricted to the size of the original disk. If you set up *partitions* in a mirror, though, you have more flexibility.</pre> </blockquote> That was part of my complain ;-), I didn't set that up. It's by mirror it seems. <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <pre wrap="">> 2) During installation, I wish I had the choice to make SE Linux > optional. As it was with previous releases. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">There's practically no reason for it now -- I run in enforcing mode all the time and I can't remember the last time I even noticed, let alone had a problem. That doesn't mean there aren't SELinux policy improvements waiting to be made. If you encounter a bug, file it, because we do send out policy updates quickly to fix them.</pre> </blockquote> My point was more philosophical: I like to have control on whats installed/activated.... that's one of the Linux features I always liked. <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Things are generally handled with labels now, which are more flexible and don't rely on easily-broken device names like /dev/sda. Also, there's a /dev/disk/* area you can use which I find is really helpful when I'm looking for a specific disk. I don't have to know whether it's sda, sdb, sdf... which is good, especially now that 187-in-1 media readers (or whatever it's up to today) are so popular!</pre> </blockquote> Ok maybe I'm missing something. If I look at /dev/disk, I would expect that every disk or partition to be listed in every subdirectory there: by-id, by-label. I'd also expect that every entry there is listed in fdisk -l. Am I wrong? <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hm, that's interesting, because I have an external hard drive on a machine here that does sleep just like it should when unused. So it's not a system wide problem. Do you have any processes running which might be using the drive?</pre> </blockquote> Ok that means it's me. I'm positive I don't have processes running on it though. I have to unplug it. thanks for the quick, and knowledgeable, response. best, mauri </body> </html>