[Gllug] Mounting Win2k Dynamic partitions in Linux

[Russell Howe]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 12:26:02PM +0100, farnsaw at stonedoor.com wrote:
> Does anyone know how to mount Win2k Dynamic partitions in Linux?

More recent kernels have a config option under "Partition types" which
presumably allows the kernel to see Windows Dynamic Disk partitions as
regular partitions:

In the kernel configuration:

"File systems" -> "Partition Types" ->
"Windows Logical Disk Manager (Dynamic Disk) support"

which is CONFIG_LDM_PARTITION

Not sure how this would manifest itself, although there is an ldm.txt in
the Documentation directory which looks to contain quite some
information and has the following links:

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ldm/index.html
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/downloads.html

If your current kernel doesn't include this (with recent 2.6 kernels,
with the correct options, a zgrep CONFIG_LDM_PARTITION in
/proc/config.gz should let you know if it's in your kernel or not) then
you'll need to build yourself a kernel (or find one) with the relevant
support.

HTH, last time I tried to compile CONFIG_LDM_PARTITION into the kernel
it had errors...

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