A question on installing - FC5 32bit and M$Win2000

Stephen Liu satimis at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 24 14:41:27 UTC 2006


Hi Matthew,

> > To add, a /boot partition is not required. Linux can boot from
> either
> > a primary partition or a logical partition.
> 
> Hmm.  I didn't know GRUB could boot from a logical partition.

Noted with tks.

> But grub can't boot from an LVM logical volume.  I (and the FC5
> installer) 
> generally put everything possible in an LVM except for a small /boot 
> partition (though I have more separate partitions in the LVM than the
> 
> installer's default).  That way, I can resize filesystems easily
> later on.

I did not use LVM logical volume before.  What will be its advantage?

TIA

B.R.
SL




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