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Re: advice on hardware purchase

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>>> I tried to install the latest Ubuntu, being very careful to do all 
>>> my partitioning ahead of time. It still did something nasty to my 
>>> partition tables.
>>>
>> Do you know what?
>>
> Seems to have screwed up the LVM info. The guilvm complains about 
> incorrect partitioning information and shows blank space where I have 
> partitions. Also tries to reassign drive letters that I'm using. Using 
> DFsee can cause a trap E in lvm.  Everything was fine when I created 
> partitions to install Ubuntu into. I was careful to tell Ubuntu not to 
> format yet every disk it touched ended up corrupted and all it took 
> was an existing swap partition for Ubuntu to touch the drive.  I've 
> successfully installed Linux quite a few times including various 
> versions of Ubuntu in the past without any major problems.
>
> ps OS/2 is functioning fine even with these lvm problems
>

Ah.  You wrote "partition tables".  OS/2's LVM information is a quite 
different kettle of fish.  I can understand how that might have become 
damaged by a Linux distribution.  It doesn't reside in the partition 
table proper.  It resides in unallocated space.  And everyone should, 
after all of these years, know the principle of not relying on being 
able to freely use unallocated disc space for one's own purposes, or 
even relying upon its existence in the first place given how some of the 
world doesn't even use the MBR partitioning scheme any more.  (It's a 
pity that IBM's LVM didn't follow in the wise footsteps of IBM's 
BootManager, and claim the space it uses with an actual partition.  
Microsoft's dynamic disc management gets that right.  So does Linux LVM, 
albeit in a different way.)  Ironically, there's probably something in 
Ubuntu making the same foolish and selfish assumption.  (This is, of 
course, one of the reasons WHY one cannot rely upon unallocated space.  
Everyone else selfishly had the same wrongheaded idea, and they all 
conflict.)

Instead of an eComStation WWW page that you cannot read, have a 
Warpdoctor WWW page that you can:

http://www.warpdoctor.org./lib/info/vnewsf5.html

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  Re: advice on hardware purchase Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2011-02-11 23:30 +0000
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    Re: advice on hardware purchase "Alex Taylor" <mail.me@reply.to.address> - 2011-02-11 01:30 -0600
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  Re: advice on hardware purchase Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2011-02-09 07:41 -0800
  Re: advice on hardware purchase "Alex Taylor" <mail.me@reply.to.address> - 2011-02-09 08:43 -0600
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