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author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> | 2019-06-27 20:56:51 +0300 |
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committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> | 2019-07-15 17:03:02 +0300 |
commit | 4f4cfa6c560c93ba180c30675cf845e1597de44c (patch) | |
tree | 0bbe2ec9e6ef62ed2a347504dda50c6bdbe43703 /Documentation/ldm.txt | |
parent | da82c92f1150f66afabf78d2c85ef9ac18dc6d38 (diff) | |
download | linux-4f4cfa6c560c93ba180c30675cf845e1597de44c.tar.xz |
docs: admin-guide: add a series of orphaned documents
There are lots of documents that belong to the admin-guide but
are on random places (most under Documentation root dir).
Move them to the admin guide.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/ldm.txt b/Documentation/ldm.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 12c571368e73..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/ldm.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,121 +0,0 @@ -========================================== -LDM - Logical Disk Manager (Dynamic Disks) -========================================== - -:Author: Originally Written by FlatCap - Richard Russon <ldm@flatcap.org>. -:Last Updated: Anton Altaparmakov on 30 March 2007 for Windows Vista. - -Overview --------- - -Windows 2000, XP, and Vista use a new partitioning scheme. It is a complete -replacement for the MSDOS style partitions. It stores its information in a -1MiB journalled database at the end of the physical disk. The size of -partitions is limited only by disk space. The maximum number of partitions is -nearly 2000. - -Any partitions created under the LDM are called "Dynamic Disks". There are no -longer any primary or extended partitions. Normal MSDOS style partitions are -now known as Basic Disks. - -If you wish to use Spanned, Striped, Mirrored or RAID 5 Volumes, you must use -Dynamic Disks. The journalling allows Windows to make changes to these -partitions and filesystems without the need to reboot. - -Once the LDM driver has divided up the disk, you can use the MD driver to -assemble any multi-partition volumes, e.g. Stripes, RAID5. - -To prevent legacy applications from repartitioning the disk, the LDM creates a -dummy MSDOS partition containing one disk-sized partition. This is what is -supported with the Linux LDM driver. - -A newer approach that has been implemented with Vista is to put LDM on top of a -GPT label disk. This is not supported by the Linux LDM driver yet. - - -Example -------- - -Below we have a 50MiB disk, divided into seven partitions. - -.. note:: - - The missing 1MiB at the end of the disk is where the LDM database is - stored. - -+-------++--------------+---------+-----++--------------+---------+----+ -|Device || Offset Bytes | Sectors | MiB || Size Bytes | Sectors | MiB| -+=======++==============+=========+=====++==============+=========+====+ -|hda || 0 | 0 | 0 || 52428800 | 102400 | 50| -+-------++--------------+---------+-----++--------------+---------+----+ -|hda1 || 51380224 | 100352 | 49 || 1048576 | 2048 | 1| -+-------++--------------+---------+-----++--------------+---------+----+ -|hda2 || 16384 | 32 | 0 || 6979584 | 13632 | 6| -+-------++--------------+---------+-----++--------------+---------+----+ -|hda3 || 6995968 | 13664 | 6 || 10485760 | 20480 | 10| -+-------++--------------+---------+-----++--------------+---------+----+ -|hda4 || 17481728 | 34144 | 16 || 4194304 | 8192 | 4| -+-------++--------------+---------+-----++--------------+---------+----+ -|hda5 || 21676032 | 42336 | 20 || 5242880 | 10240 | 5| -+-------++--------------+---------+-----++--------------+---------+----+ -|hda6 || 26918912 | 52576 | 25 || 10485760 | 20480 | 10| -+-------++--------------+---------+-----++--------------+---------+----+ -|hda7 || 37404672 | 73056 | 35 || 13959168 | 27264 | 13| -+-------++--------------+---------+-----++--------------+---------+----+ - -The LDM Database may not store the partitions in the order that they appear on -disk, but the driver will sort them. - -When Linux boots, you will see something like:: - - hda: 102400 sectors w/32KiB Cache, CHS=50/64/32 - hda: [LDM] hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 hda5 hda6 hda7 - - -Compiling LDM Support ---------------------- - -To enable LDM, choose the following two options: - - - "Advanced partition selection" CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED - - "Windows Logical Disk Manager (Dynamic Disk) support" CONFIG_LDM_PARTITION - -If you believe the driver isn't working as it should, you can enable the extra -debugging code. This will produce a LOT of output. The option is: - - - "Windows LDM extra logging" CONFIG_LDM_DEBUG - -N.B. The partition code cannot be compiled as a module. - -As with all the partition code, if the driver doesn't see signs of its type of -partition, it will pass control to another driver, so there is no harm in -enabling it. - -If you have Dynamic Disks but don't enable the driver, then all you will see -is a dummy MSDOS partition filling the whole disk. You won't be able to mount -any of the volumes on the disk. - - -Booting -------- - -If you enable LDM support, then lilo is capable of booting from any of the -discovered partitions. However, grub does not understand the LDM partitioning -and cannot boot from a Dynamic Disk. - - -More Documentation ------------------- - -There is an Overview of the LDM together with complete Technical Documentation. -It is available for download. - - http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ - -If you have any LDM questions that aren't answered in the documentation, email -me. - -Cheers, - FlatCap - Richard Russon - ldm@flatcap.org - |