Fedora 16 Install

Well this didn't go so smoothly. I first tried to install from live usb - perhaps this was a mistake.
After partitioning, when beginning the install, it stopped with a filesystem error.
Frustrated also with LVM, I had tried the install without LVM.
I tried many partition layouts, including with LVM, but in the end was unable to resolve it.

Desperate, I did a fresh install of Fedora 15 (from DVD install media), using a custom layout (without LVM), which worked fine. From there yum upgrade from Fedora 15 to 16 went smoothly.

Resizing LVM volumes

Just made the costly mistake of shrinking an LVM volume by booting from a DVD, and using lvm to resize directly. I should have read the following first -

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-enterprise-47/shrink-lvm-without-dataloss-557746/

Seems the key step I missed was to use 'resize2fs' to resize the filesystem first.

Having re-installed... my next step is to put a second install on the hard disk, for future recovery work.