2011/2/21 Buchan Milne <bgmi...@staff.telkomsa.net>: > On Monday, 21 February 2011 11:49:27 Thomas Lottmann wrote: >> I am still not convinced of how easy this can be. For having attempted >> to manage (and learn) how to manage LVM partitons with CentOS, it is >> quite complicated. So it certainly has many advantages, but I'm awaiting >> an intuitive disk manager like Diskdrake to manage this stuff without >> the need of preliminary knowledge. > > Yes, with diskdrake, it's no problem. Anaconda's LVM interface is quite > confusing and complex. After installation, AFAIK, you can't access the same > interface. system-config-lvm (if it's still around) was also pretty unusable. > > But, we have diskdrake, so why are the problems of CentOS an issue?
Because (as I remarked earlier) there are people who have other Linux flavors on their harddisk before they try Mageia - what if they do their partitioning with those (i.e. CentOS)? Again, people do not work all the same. There are people who do their partitioning with 3rd-party apps like gparted or others. There are people who like to have a bootloader in the root partition of each Linux they install (using chainloader in the first Linux' grub), etc. IMHO it is a bad idea to make LVM default, because there are too many cases around where people would not want LVM. LVM as an option is a far better solution and let the user decide what he wants. -- wobo