partitioning new installation

John Van Ostrand john-Da48MpWaEp0CzWx7n4ubxQ at public.gmane.org
Thu Mar 9 17:13:43 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 11:49 -0500, Evan Leibovitch wrote:

> Does LVM with with FAT32 filesystems?
> 
> I find that on laptops (and other dual boot systems) it's easiest to 
> have the shared data on FAT32 partitions so they can be easily 
> read/written whether booting Linux or Windows. The idea of LVM seems 
> great, but not if it results in my needing to use filesystems that 
> aren't accessible from Windows when I boot that way.


It will work in Linux but would be unreadable in Windows. Windows has
it's own version of LVM that I bet is totally incompatible with Linux.

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