Complex hard drive partitioning

[Christofer C. Bell]

On 7/6/06, The_Eye_In_The_Sky <syiwabhairawa at yahoo.com.sg> wrote:
>
> Since I need to separate /, /var, /home, swap, I need to use the LVM. I
> found it Ubuntu cannot recognize the LVM created by Fedora Core or
> CentOs. So ends up that i put Fedora Core on my Acer laptop.

I'm just curious why needing separate /, /var, /home, and swap
necessitates the use of LVM in your situation?  What issue did you
encounter trying to use an extended partition for Linux?

-- 
Chris

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