Complex hard drive partitioning

[Alexander Skwar]

Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> 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

No, you don't *need* LVM for that. You *could* use old-style paritioning.
But you're of course right, that it's best practice to use LVM nowadays,
especially if you don't need to access the data on those LVMs with Windows.

>> found it Ubuntu cannot recognize the LVM created by Fedora Core or
>> CentOs.

How did you find that? By using the installer from the Live CD? If
so, then you're wrong - the installer on the Live CD doesn't support
LVM. You'll need to use the alternative CD.

> 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?

You're right, OP doesn't *HAVE* to use LVM. It's just leaps more
convenient. I wonder, why you suggest to go back to the overcome
extended partitioning with all its problems and downsides, like
the inability to make partitions larger (if there are other partitions
before/behind it) and the need to reboot, so that changes to the
partition table are avialable to the kernel.

Alexander Skwar
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