Hi Jon, > Far worse: I have a 1TB external drive with a DOS partition table, one > partition formatted for LVM, with an LVM logical volume on top which is > part of an md RAID set, inside the RAID device is another LVM PV for a > different volume group. Your point is correct: it is far from > user-friendly ☺
Ah, another fellow sufferer! To us it is a problem we can overcome, but I'd like to present my customer something that'll be easier to do. > What environment is available in the system that might need to interpret > the device? My GNOME desktop can mount LUKS/dm-crypt devices graphically, > via nautilus (I think using udisks[1] as the back-end but I can't see the > package dependency relationship) > > [1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/udisks Thanks. I hand't seen this, yet. The DE where the disk will be mounted is pure KDE. At the moment version 4.6.3, but they expect to migrite to 4.8 in a couple of weeks. > If you are using the entire disk and don't anticipate needing to shuffle > things then there's no point indeed. That's the case. Thanks for helping! Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201204051320.35932.hdv.ja...@gmail.com
