Hi
What is the difference between a logical volume and a partition?
Thanks in advance.
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Hi
What is the difference between a logical volume and a partition?
Thanks in advance.
As far as I know, a partition is a part of one physical hard drive that is made to behave as if it is a hard drive itself.
A logical volume is a section of storage, which may be bigger than one physical drive, that is made to behave as if it is all one drive.
For example, I have a couple of small partitions on this drive for /boot and swap, but /root and /home are logical volumes that extend across a couple of physical hard drives.
Understand?
Thanks a lot. That was useful info.
Hi
My office computer has ext3 filesystem. Using Linux Reader http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/ I can read the ext3 partition from Windows XP.
My home computer has logical volume and I unable to read the data from logical volume.
Anybody can tell me a software / a way I could read the logical volume data from Windows?
Thank you!
Stepic
Nobody can help me?
How is that Windows volume formatted? NTFS? If so, there are a couple of ways you can access the data on that partition from your Linux install. You might want to take a look at ntfs-3g.Quote:
Originally Posted by stepic
No, I don't want to read windows partition from linux (I already use ntfs-3g for this operation).Quote:
Originally Posted by Thrillhouse
My concern is I want to read linux partition data from windows. My Fedora is on a logical LVM partition created by Fedora installer. I wish to read the linux LVM partition data from windows.
Is there a way to do that?
Thank you.
AFAIK, its not possible to read LVM from Windows. you can read ext3/ext2 partitions using fsdriver. i will be glad if someone proves me wrong.
Casper
That's bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by devils_casper
Thank you.