dual boot w2k sees lvm (raw partition)

Jim Cornette fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Mon Jun 4 01:11:32 UTC 2007


John wrote:
>  I have W2k on one partition and FC6 on the other; when clicking through 
> to My Computer (Win2k), a 132mb partition and a unknown sized (and 
> unformatted) drive is now showing up. This only happened, after I 
> installed FC6... I'm rather uncomfortable with the unformatted drive and 
> partition showing; is there any fixes I could/should too.
> 
>                John
> 

LVMs show up in windows as raw partitions. You might be able to use the 
hide feature in grub and add it to the grub.conf file. Windows does not 
show ext3 partitions so I noticed the same only on installations that 
are on lvms. The entry is put in the W2k stanza.

Jim




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