On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 6:23 AM, Doug <dmcgarr...@optonline.net> wrote: > [...] > I don't understand LVM, but I tried to install some distro just to > learn about it, and it would only install using LVM, which meant > that it would only install on the entire hard drive. No partitions, > no Windows, no nothing. I installed it on a second small h/d, and > then I found out that nothing on it was accessible from a normal > Linux installed on a normal file system on sda. If LVM becomes > the Linux standard, I will have to find a different OS! > > --doug
Odd. I've used LVM on plain Fedora and Debian (and I think Ubuntu) installs for going on ten years, now. Very useful, although the tools are a bit counter-intuitive if you're used to DOS-extended partitions. If you installed the LVM package in the second "normal" Linux, it should have been easily accessible. You might want to use the GUI tools at first, so that you don't damage your brain trying to figure out good defaults for the command-line tools. Use the command-line tools to see what the GUI tools did after they've done their job. And remember you have to have a physical volume and then cut the physical volume into logical volumes, and if you only have one hard drive that is dedicated to LVM, you should only need one each of the physical and logical volume groups. (I've tended to think of the volume groups as LVM equivalent of RAID, but that's an over-simplification.) -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- 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/CAAr43iOJZr9r0K=1+cftef5vqg8sz+swcblsqvvboimezob...@mail.gmail.com
