Partitioning question

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Beartooth Sciurivore wrote:
> 	I'm on a machine (my #1) that I just upgraded yesterday from F8 
> to F9. I opened both gparted and qtparted, to get a look at what 
> partitioning I have now, in hope of finding room for a second swap 
> partition.
> 
> 	Both show /dev/sda1 with 196 MB, labelled /boot -- and /dev/sda2 
> (all the rest, 74 GB) with an unknown file system! Gparted offers a 
> warning about that.
> 
> 	Last time I saw a partition with an unknown file system on one of 
> my machines, I was told the hard drive must be failing, or about to fail. 
> Is that so now??
> 
> 	Or have I messed up my upgrade from F8? Or what?
> 
> 	What should I do??
> 
By default, F8 uses LVM to manage the file systems. A LVM partition 
will show up as an unkown file system to a lot of utilities. /boot 
can not be on a LVM partition because Grub does not know how to 
handle them. (Not 100% true - there are ways to use Grub without it 
being able to read the file system.) You have to use the LVM 
utilities to manage file systems in the LVM partition. On F8 in 
Gnome it is System --> Administration --> Logical Volume Management.

Mikkel
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