On Saturday 12 June 2004 13:55, Alexander Dalloz wrote: >Am Sa, den 12.06.2004 schrieb Reg Clemens um 19:46: >> > > I have a disk with the partitions out of order. i.e. hda5 is >> > > before hda4. Is this a problem? Is it possible to change the >> > > order? >> >> This is the result of using Disk Druid to partition the disk, and >> its the reason I constantly complain about this piece of software >> that RedHat has impoesed on us. > >Not true. Disk Druid does not mix the partitions that way. The OP > very certainly did use other tools, namely from the DOS/Windows[tm] > world, like Partition Magic. Shall we bet? > >> Reg.Clemens > >Alexander Sorry Alexander, but I too have seen disk druid play mix-n-match with my partitions, not only moving the order around, but the linkage names too. I've had it move my /usr (40Gb or more) to a 50 meg partition! I consider it broken in every sense of the word and will not allow it to scribble anywhere near my drives because of this. I very carefully setup the 1st and second partitions on my drives as 100 megs for hda1=/boot, 50 megs for hda2=/dos, then the rest of the assignables like 300 megs as /etc on hda3, etc for 4Gb as /root on hda5, etc for a 1 Gb /opt on hda6, etc for a 30Gb / on hda7 and finally using the remainder of the drive which may be 60+ gigs as /usr on /hda8. First off it won't allow the /boot named partition to not be a directory of /, and there isn't any good reason I can see for that restriction. If there is, please explain it to me. AFAIK, it could actually be on a different physical drive as still be 100% functional. So I use fdisk to setup any new drives well before an install, and if needed, anaconda can format them. I keep hoping that druid will get fixed, I rather like its user interface. But what it really really should be is a gui for fdisk, which so far hasn't suffered from any such arbitraryness, absent-mindedness or dementia that I'm aware of. An old farts $0.02 in this subject. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.23% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
