Debian Bug report logs - #596791
guide doesn't discuss dynamic disks or Windows LDM

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From: Daniel Pocock <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: guide doesn't discuss dynamic disks or Windows LDM

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:21:40 +0200

Package: installation-guide

Windows LDM (Logical Disk Manager) and `dynamic disks' are a reality for
anyone installing a dual boot machine, especially if Windows Vista or
Windows 7 is already on the machine.

The guide may need to be updated to touch on various issues:

- choice of boot loader (grub doesn't support LDM yet)

- GPT disk labels created by some Windows installs

- Should LDM dynamic disks be used as physical volumes (PV) for LVM2?

- Can the LDM part of the disk be safely shrunk to create space for a
real partition for Linux or LVM2?

It would be good to discuss both practical constraints and installation
strategies, and provide a working example for the typical scenario of a
machine with an existing all-of-disk LDM Windows 7 install.

This issue is related:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=569133

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