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Re: lvm vs traditional partitioning



On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 16:51 -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> On Friday 22 December 2006 17:09, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> > I heard lvm can be used to have partitions whose sizes can be changed over
> > time in non-destructive way as far as the data is concerned.
> >
> 
> Thanks for all the previous replies. Another small question.
> 
> I currently have Windows on this laptop. I will also have a 7 GB FAT32 
> partition so that data can be exchanged between windows and Linux. If this 
> FAT32 is inside the same volume group as that of /, will it still be 
> accessible from windows? or does lvm in some way shield the FAT32 partition 
> from windows?

Windows knows nothing of LVM. Therefore never can be used to exchange
data on a FAT32 partition made upon LVM.
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