At 3:35 PM -0700 6/2/07, Kam Leo wrote: >On 6/2/07, Tony Nelson <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> At 2:30 PM -0700 6/2/07, Kam Leo wrote: >> ... >> >... LVM rides on top of EXT3 >> >> LVM has nothing at all to do with EXT3 or any other filesystem. It does >> not "ride on top of" anything other than DeviceMapper. > >Where did you get that little factoid? Here's where I got mine: > >http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-lvm-intro.html You misunderstood it completely, and you're looking at the wrong page; the correct page is <http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s1-lvm2-intro-whatis.html> . That's because Fedora uses LVM2. Or try the README that comes with lvm2. There's also a Wikipedia article on LVM. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>