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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