--- rallee2{at}comcast.net wrote:

> Thank you Mike
>   for a well expressed, informative post.

>   At worst it can result in very destructive and non-sequitor
> behavior. 

> that FDISK will come to my rescue
> because I am all but totally unwilling to unleash LVM on a 20+
> partition system with years of accumulated data.  Unless there is a
> *vastly* improved version now available, I simply don't trust it and
> I wish to have good Fat32 support and that seems unlikely in an LVM
> environment.


Wow! Don't believe in backing up?
I screwed up a disk I wasn't even working on once with Fdisk because I
was working on the second installed hard drive and forgot to switch to
it and when I closed fdisk it merrily did what I asked - to the first
hard drive with all my stuff on it. Hey we all learn one way or
another.

IIRC I used LVM to put a partition a ways toward the end of a hard
drive, leaving as much on the front end that win98 would work with. If
one doesn't give win98 the whole disk, it's fdisk hits the 1028
cylinder limit and cannot go further. I then made a primary partition
on the front of the drive of about 1 gig, formatted it hpfs and
installed ECS on it. Then with win98 made the largest partition it
would make in the space. If there was dead space, I used linux to
stretch the windows partition and it seemed to work. Then in LVM,
assigned that partition a drive letter (M for M$) and use FAT32.IFS.
Finally ended up using AIR-BOOT for the boot manager. With an 80 gig
drive I have 3 partitions: C:HPFS 1004m, M:fat32 39142mb, and D:JFS
38003 MB. It has worked flawlessly since then for about a year now.

Franklin

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