On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 03:02:39PM +0100, Ignacy Gawedzki wrote:
Hi everyone, I've been looking for the answer for some time now and it is apparently nowhere to be found, so I resolved to ask it here. Somehow unexpectedly, Windows "sees" LVM partitions (partition type 8e) and shows them in the explorer and in other places. Of course it doesn't understand the format and I don't have access to their contents from there, but nevertheless it happens to offer a "format..." entry in the contextual menu (brrrr... quite frightening!). Obviously, LVM just doesn't care that much about the partition type when it scans for PVs, so I could probably just put something else here (e.g. Linux, 82). I was just wondering whether anybody here could provide with some insight about this (why doesn't Windows simply ignore these partitions or whether there are better tricks to hide them from it). I find it pretty useful to be able to identify LVM PVs when using fdisk for example (curiously enough, gparted doesn't understand the 8e type).
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