On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 11:17:41AM +1030, Tim wrote:I think Michael has a logical volume in the volume group, and that logical
> You can format a partition as VFAT *or* LVM, it can't be both at the
> same time.
volume is VFAT.
Michael: if you want Windows to see that logical volume, I don't think
this is possible. If I were setting up a dual-boot system where I needed
to share information, I'd set it up with partitions like so:
1: /boot (ext3; 100MB)
2: C: (FAT; for Windows)
3: D: (FAT; for shared space)
4: volume group (for Linux installation)
Also, be aware that Windows will see the Linux volume group as a drive
that it thinks it can do stuff with, so you might want to install
Microsoft PowerToys to hide the volume group from Windows Explorer, so
that you (or someone else) doesn't accidentally format the volume group or
do something else with it in Windows.
Msquared
Thank you for your response, and you are quite right. I have a logical volume within a volume group that is fat32 (mounted as vfat in fstab). I finally decided there was no way for XP to see it all it would see was the entire volume group as a single raw disk with 0 bytes free and 0 bytes used, LOL. So, i re-installed using the old fashioned partioning without LVM advantages and that of course worked.
Thanks all for the responses.
Michael Weiner
