Re: [coLinux-users] How to access a logical partition

[Henry N. <Hen...@Ar...>]

Harald Weidner wrote:
> hda5 type "Linux LVM" and an LVM physical volume
> hda6 type "Linux", but contains also an LVM PV
> hda7 type "Linux LVM" but contains an ext3 partition
> hda8 type "Linux" and contains an ext3 partition
> 
> The results:
> 
> Only the devices of type "Linux" are recognized by coLinux.
> The partitions of type "Linux LVM" are ignored and yield to the
> error message "No such device" when being accessed with cat or dd.
> 
> The ext3 partition hda8 can be mounted without further problems into
> colinux.
> 
> The LVM partition hda6 is not recognized by LVM inside coLinux, unless
> the following parameter is set in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf:
> 
>     # List of pairs of additional acceptable block device types found
>     # in /proc/devices with maximum (non-zero) number of partitions.
>     types = [ "cobd", 32 ]
> 
> 
> All in all, this is not nice but solves my problems accessing a logical
> partition containing LVM.
> 
> 
>> That's a strong result. In normal case, all Linux Partition have a line
>>  "Fixed hard disk media. Block size = 512"
>> Is that normal for LVM, that they don't have? I don't know.
> 
> With the above configuration, it looks like:
> 
> [...]
> \\?\Device\Harddisk0\Partition4
>   link to \\?\Device\HarddiskVolume4
>   size is 55002415104 bytes
> \\?\Device\Harddisk0\Partition5
>   link to \\?\Device\HarddiskVolume5
>   Fixed hard disk media. Block size = 512
>   size is 55002415104 bytes
> \\?\Device\Harddisk0\Partition6
>   link to \\?\Device\HarddiskVolume6
>   size is 55002415104 bytes
> \\?\Device\Harddisk0\Partition7
>   link to \\?\Device\HarddiskVolume7
>   Fixed hard disk media. Block size = 512
>   size is 55306750464 bytes
> [...]
> 
> E.g. all partitions of type "Linux" are displayed with the "Fixed hard
> disk media. Block size = 512" line, but not the "Linux LVM" partitions.
> It does not matter wether the partitions actually contain LVM or ext3.

I have one free partition. How can I setup it as "Linux LVM"?
Short steps or a link to any simple help side would help me, please.

-- 
Henry N.