dual boot, lvm appearing as raw filesystem in XP

[Jim Cornette]

Ian Malone wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is really a Windows question, but I thought it more likely that
> someone here would know the answer:
> I've just upgraded the Windows half of my dual boot to XP Pro SP2
> (and am busy installing all the drivers for devices that FC6
> recognised).  One thing that's worrying me is that my LVM partition
> shows up as a drive containing 'raw filesystem'. I'm slightly
> concerned it could get clobbered by accident, does anyone know a
> way to hide it from Windows?
> 

I wondered about the LVM showing but never tried to prevent it from 
being visible. I am the only one using the computers where the raw 
device shows up though.

Using hide in grub to hide the LVM from DOS/Windows might work as the 
link below illustrates.

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#DOS_002fWindows

Jim

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