Re: FDISK -> LVM question
- From: Heiko Nitzsche <hn-expires-20aug07@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:30:43 +0200
OS/2 sees the HPFS and FAT32 partitions C:, D:, E: and F:
Windows sees the NTFS and the FAT32 partitions C: and F:
Questions:
* Will drive letters in Windows 2000 be affected by the LVM info? If for example the NTFS partition drive letter in OS/2 is changed to "G:", will Windows see it's boot drive as "G:" or will it remain as "C:"?
Drive letters in Win are usually not affected by the LVM ones.
There is just one strange issue with HPFS partitions.
Windows XP somehow picks up the HPFS partitions when you have assigned a drive
letter to them via LVM and assigns them also a letter. They appear in WinXP
then as non-formatted drives.
You can easily correct this in the Windows drive manager (remove the drive letters)
but before this you need to be careful. At least Windows XP has this habbit to
ask you automatically to format a partition via a popup dialog once you try to
access it. If you press OK (Return key), your data are gone. If you have the
relevant drive letters removed, all is good.
* Will the drive letter setting in Windows 2000 influence OS/2? Currently, the HPFS partitions D: and E: do not have drive letters assigned in Win2000. Will the drives disappear in OS/2 when using LVM?
No. Windows and OS/2 can have different drive letters for the same partition.
Some additional notes:
Only add drive letters to partitions you really want to use and for that
you have a file system driver for. So you don't need to assign a drive
letter to the NTFS partitions.
Also you should set the same drive letter to all OS/2 partitons via LVM
as they were before. Otherwise your system might not be bootable anymore!
.
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