On Monday 13 February 2006 08:54, "Michael Kintzios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'RE: [gentoo-user] Max Number of Partitions': > Current partitions 1, 13, 14, 15 and 16 are NTFS. As I understand it > LVM is a software solution that works happily with Linux. What happens > when my other half tries to boot into WinXP? Are we going to have a > major domestic because I hosed *her* computer?
Windows will not be able to see LVs; These will have to remain as partitions or you can use the windows equivalent of LVM. It's something like dynamic disk management or dynamic volume manager... I don't use windows much. > I believe Alexander mentioned it, but the reason I have placed > directories like /usr/portage into different partitions is to minimise > data fragmentation. How does this work in an LVM set up? The filesystem will see a LV the same way it sees a partition, as a single contiguous block device. Filesystem level fragmentation will happen as normal on this block device. However, LVM does introduce the possibility for the LV itself to become fragmented. You can prevent this by marking the LV(s) as contiguous, but that will prevent you from extending the LV in some cases. Generally LV fragmentation is much less of a problem because LVs change size less often than the files on the filesystems they host change size. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
