Following my recent upgrade from Fedora 11 x86_64 to Fedora 13 x86_64, I have discovered that there is now a new partition listed by Nautilus when I view the "Computer" folder. It now lists:
CD/DVD Drive vg_devil8 File System "Devil8" is the name of the computer, so that part is clear. The icon for vg_devil8 looks like an older, taller hard drive. It has a round green blob in the corner that says VG in tiny white letters. If I double click on vg_Devil8 Nautilus gives me an error message that it can't mount the location. Also, there is now a menu item Under System > Administration labeled Logical Volume Manager. Launching it gives me a GUI view of vg_devil8, where "vg" apparently stands for "volume group." The GUI shows a "logical view" and a "physical view" of sda2, the root partition. (I set up the 320 GB hard drive with a 200 MB boot partition, and the remainder as sda2 for root; no separate swap partition.) All seems to be fine except that gParted now shows /dev/sda2 with a big orange triangle with an exclamation mark in it and the file system is now lvm2, where it used to be labeled ext3. Right clicking on /dev/sda2 and selecting Information gives a warning "Logical volume management is not yet supported." I assume that warning means that gParted doesn't support it, since everything seems to be running fine. I suppose now I'm going to have to spend hours googling to figure out what a logical volume is as opposed to a partition, and why Fedora 13 decided I needed one. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
