Michael Kintzios wrote: > Two quick Q's: > > Current partitions 1, 13, 14, 15 and 16 are NTFS. As I understand it > LVM is a software solution that works happily with Linux.
Yes. And only Linux - meaning, that if you'd boot FreeBSD or Solaris, you won't be able to use your filesystems. > What happens > when my other half tries to boot into WinXP? She won't be able to access the Linux filesystems. > Are we going to have a > major domestic because I hosed *her* computer? No. Windows will only see one partition - the partition holding the "physical volume" (PV) which contains your volume group (VG) which, in turn, contains the logical volumes (LV) on which you'll, finally *G*, have your filesystems. > I believe Alexander mentioned it, but the reason I have placed > directories like /usr/portage into different partitions is to minimise > data fragmentation. I'm talking about a different kind of fragmentation. With LVM, logical volumes ("partitions") don't have to be consecutive. Indeed, most of the time they won't be. So, suppose you create lvol1 and lvol2. Now you wish to extend lvol1. What will happen is, that the phsyical extents ("blocks") for lvol1 are "in front of" and "behind" lvol2 (simply put). > How does this work in an LVM set up? Filesystems don't "see" that they are on logical volumes. This means, that the filesystem fragmentation will happen just as as it normally does. Alexander Skwar -- God is subtle, but he is not malicious. -- Albert Einstein -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list