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Date:	Sun, 17 Sep 2000 00:20:56 PDT
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-General: VPM

In <200009170503.WAA22625@mail2.deltanet.com>, on 09/16/00
at 10:12 PM, dwatson@deltanet.com said:

>Could someone refresh me on the alternate partition manager Kim showed
>us today? I thought it was "VPM" but I can't find anything about it
>anywhere. I'm curious what the partition structure is, and whether
>there is a standalone app that can partition a disk this way without
>Kim's CD.

Dave,

It's LVM. The partition structure is not changes so much as augmented.
IIRC, the last sector of the cylinder containing the partition table holds
the new information.

Kim's CD contains nothing more than the LVM tools that come with WSeB. I
believe the program names are lvm and pmlvm.

Jan van Wijk's DFSEE package can also do some LVM table editing.

One thing that confuses me about what Kim said is the statement that
there's no going back once you install LVM. I don't believe this is
strictly true. If you have not make a LVM specific mods, it seems to me
that you could use any of the partition table restore tools to get back to
a non-LVM state.

I haven't seen any documentation of the data structures yet.

Steven

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