Admin Guide - managing disks

[Richard England]

Vladimir Kosovac wrote:
> Paul W. Frields wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 06:48 +1300, Vladimir Kosovac wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi people.
>>>
>>> Admin guide lists two sections related to disk management:
>>>
>>> 1] Working with disks and removable storage:
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/AdministrationGuide/Disks
>>>
>>> 2] Managing storage:
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/AdministrationGuide/ManagingStorage
>>>
>>> I reckon:
>>>
>>>  * split ''1]'' and move ''working with disks'' to ''2]''
>>>  * exclude ''removable storage'' - better suited for inclusion in DUG
>>>  * revise the structure of ''2]'' to include:
>>>   i. "classical" partitioning /w tools (fdisk, parted, mkfs)
>>>   ii. mounting, fstab
>>>   iii. software RAID
>>>   iv. LVM
>>>   v. disk quotas
>>>
>>> Does this sound like a (cunning) plan?
>>>       
>> We should encourage use of LVM.  This is now anaconda installation
>> default, but moreover it's a better choice by far when you're
>> administering a system for service provision.
>>
>>     
> Yes, that's the idea - my plan is to write pretty comprehensive LVM
> subsection (iv). I also want to include all this other stuff (not so
> extensively), mostly as a background info and an aid to better
> understanding of the LVM concept. I've found this more than useful when
> introducing people to LVM.
>
> Vladimir
>
>   
Pardon me for intruding, here, but I hop this does not mean that you 
will be ignoring the "classical" partitioning methods. LVM may be the 
default but for many situations (non-server and laptops, notably) LVM 
may not be the optimal solution.

Thanks for all the hard work being put in on this.

~~R