{"id":574,"date":"2006-02-14T23:32:53","date_gmt":"2006-02-14T13:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/14\/debian-installer-partitioning-tool\/"},"modified":"2006-02-14T23:32:53","modified_gmt":"2006-02-14T13:32:53","slug":"debian-installer-partitioning-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/14\/debian-installer-partitioning-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"debian installer partitioning tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It blows slightly less goat than the previous offering.<\/p>\n<p>It totally blows against something like the RH\/Fedora tool. Like, they actually work properly and won&#8217;t show you something as dumb as LVM VGs and LVs witohut an underlying lvm partition set up <strong>anywhere<\/strong>. Oh, and the supremely broken behaviour of giving weird partition error messages repeatedly when I&#8217;m trying to set up \/boot.<\/p>\n<p>Oh how you irritate me. Isn&#8217;t this RAID and LVM thing meant to be <strong>easy<\/strong>. So why isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>Because it&#8217;s obviously a good idea to re-invent the bloody wheel a few times, that&#8217;s why. I think i would have preferred doing it all on the command line. Fuck that sucks donkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It blows slightly less goat than the previous offering. It totally blows against something like the RH\/Fedora tool. Like, they actually work properly and won&#8217;t show you something as dumb as LVM VGs and LVs witohut an underlying lvm partition &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/14\/debian-installer-partitioning-tool\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grumble"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-9g","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":808,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/27\/jbod-can-bite-you-and-ubuntu-704\/","url_meta":{"origin":574,"position":0},"title":"JBOD can bite you&#8230; (and Ubuntu 7.04)","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2007-03-27","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, so one of the disks in a JBOD (well... single LVM) has been on the way out (hopefully can recover some stuff off it... there's nothing completely important... but still). 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