Booting - Enterprise Volume Management System
Alexander Skwar
listen at alexander.skwar.name
Sat Aug 12 17:27:24 UTC 2006
· Thiers Botelho <thiersb at gmail.com>:
> On 8/11/06, Alexander Skwar <listen at alexander.skwar.name> wrote:
>> · Toby Kelsey <toby_kelsey at ntlworld.com>:
>> > David Abrahams wrote:
>> >> Toby Kelsey <toby_kelsey at ntlworld.com> writes:
>> >>
> [snip]
>> >>
>> >
>> > Perhaps. My point was that LVM has limitations
>>
>> Yes, it has. It cannot be used for filesystems on a "dual" boot
>> system which should be used for data exchange, as LVM can ONLY
>> be used with Linux. No other OS can read Linux LVM.
>>
> [snip]
>>
>> Alexander Skwar
>
> Hi Alex (hope I got the snipping & quoting right).
>
> Based on your statement above, I'd like to know if the following is
> feasible (and well, if it makes sense of course):
>
> - A triple-boot system with WinXP, Ubuntu and, say, Fedora 5 ;
>
> - One primary partition for windoze C: drive and one extended
> partition to accomodate all the rest ;
>
> - one [or more] VFAT logical partitions for data exchange among the 3
> systems (I know, no data security at all here) ;
Because of that, I'd recommend ext2. There are drivers for Windows,
which allow accessing ext2 from Windows.
> - one (maybe two ?) /boot logical partitions for the Linuxen ;
I'd suggest two - one for every Linux OS. I'd make them ext2.
> - a fair number of logical partitions, interspersed with some empty
> chunks of space, to be used under LVM on Ubuntu and FC5.
Uhm - why that? Why a fair number of logical partitions and
why interspersed with chunks of space? What do you expect
to gain by that?
If you're going to use LVM, I'd rather make one huge logical
or primary partition. I'd then make this partition a Physical
Volume (PV) and create *ONE* Volume Group (VG) which consists
of just one PV. Next, I'd create as many Logical Volumes as
needed for Ubuntu and FC5 (hasn't FC6 been released recently?
Or was it a RC or Beta?).
Ie. I'd use the SAME VG with Ubuntu and FC5.
Hm - actually, I'd make the PV a primary partition, so that
Windows has problems accessing the partition. As we don't
even want Windows to access this partition, that's fine. The
data exchange partition, I'd make a logical partition.
Alexander Skwar
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