Hi, I had the same problem ... with fedora 2. I ended up doing away with LVM. As I understand it is only useful if you are likely to fill your partitions and need to resize them. I thought this might be useful initially, but as I don't create many huge files, I don't think I would ever use it even if I could get it working. When I looked into it they were doing a major change in the code .. it might be simpler now .. I've forgotten it and not regretted it. Stephen

From: Oliver Jones <oliver(a)deeper.co.nz> Date: 2004/12/19 Sun PM 06:47:27 GMT+13:00 To: Waikato Linux Users Group <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Subject: [wlug] Linux LVM and Windows.

On my laptop I've installed Fedora Core 3. By default FC3 uses Linux LVM for the install partitions and swap. It only puts /boot on a separate "Linux native" partition. I also have Windows XP installed on my laptop in a 20GB partition at the front of the drive (hda1).

When I booted Windows today (a rarity) I noticed that the LVM partition is showing up as a drive letter in Windows. The disk manager doesn't show it with a file system but I am concerned Windows XP will do something stupid and try and write to the device at some point and fruck my Linux install.

Does anyone else have experience with Windows XP and Linux LVM? How can I hide the LVM drive from Windows. Is there a way of telling Windows the get the hell away from that partition?

I've never used LVM before so I'm in the dark a bit. Any help would be appreciated.

Regards -- Oliver Jones <oliver(a)deeper.co.nz> Deeper Design Limited

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