Ok, seems I will have to learn a new way of working after getting along for many years with many Linux flavors very well.
Say, with a new laptop which has a 360 Go harddisk with Windows preinstalled - which is one of the top most user cases: 1. I start windows, move everything from D:\ to C:\ (if there is a D:\), then check/defrag C.\. 2. I restart the laptop with the Mageia install medium and start installation. Normally (with diskdrake during installation) I'd resize the Windows partition to 20 Go, then create swap on sda5, a large Data partition (150Go or more) on sda6 and the root partition of Mageia (10 Go) on sda7. The rest remains untouched. (A dynamic extended partition sda2 (or 3 or 4) is created automatically by diskdrake). 3. If I feel like install another Linux or another instance of Mageia I just create sda8 in the free space, etc. Now with LVM, what do I do?When installing Mageia I don't create those partitions but just one large LVM which holds DATA, swap and root partition of mageia? But I want to use swap and DATA with all other Linux installations as well, how do I mount them into another LVM? Is it possible to have another LVM for Mandriva, another one for Fedora, etc. all inside the extended partition sda4? Now, I am totally aware that this thread is not for answering such questions and I will read up on LVM ASAP. What I want to show with this common example is: many users will ask these questions because (AFAIK from my forum experience) most users do not use LVM yet. -- wobo
