On Monday 17 January 2005 21:31, Jeff Vian wrote: >On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 00:40 +0100, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 10:45:56AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > Except for DD's insistance on re-arranging partitions. I've had >> > enough headaches and screwed up installs that DD will never >> > touch another disk of mine, ever. >> >> I have no idea which Disk Druid you're using but it obviously >> isn't the one shipped with Fedora's installation program. >> >> I've installed (from scratch) all the Fedoras one after the other >> on the same computer. In all cases, DD only formated the >> partitions I told it to partition ( the / and swap partitions) and >> left the others (a partition I mount on /media/data and /home) >> intact. >> >> > To the redhat/fedora packagers: Please, please, please give us >> > back fdisk, its not broken like DD, and it doesn't decide to >> > format your /home or /root partitions and use them for / in the >> > next incarnation. >> >> If you prefer fdisk, then just use that instead of DD. >> >> Emmanuel > >Gene is not the only one to have problems. >I have had it rearrange partitions, but NEVER on a prepartitioned > disk which is what you used, and what is given by using fdisk to > create the partition before defining the mount points with disk > druid. > >On an unpartitioned disk it chooses where the partition goes. If > there are more than one disk it by default chooses both (or all) > disks as the possible targets. If you create say 5 partitons and > you build them in the order you want them placed IT chooses the > order (and drive) it feels is best for creating them. So what you > thought was hda2 may actually become hdb3, etc. > >Gene's comment was related to creating partitions, not reinstalling > on existing partitions. Yes, in the case of the 4GB drive hdb, it was redoing a windows install I have no use for. For hda, it was pre-partitioned they way I wanted it earlier, but DD didn't act like it could read the existing partition table. I know, I stopped, backed out and rechecked it with a boot disk that had fdisk on it. The partitions were as I wanted them, but when DD got done with it, I frankly had NDI what was where. I commonly setup the first two partitions of only 100MB each as /dev/hda1=/boot, and /dev/hda2=/DOS (vfat formatted in case I need to boot drdos). The rest of the disks assignments depend on what I'm going to do with that box, but usually include a goodly chunk as /dev/hda3=/root as I run as root 99.44% of the time. Likewise a big enough /dev/hda5=/home partition that I can have a few amanda builds living there. Then hda6-7-8 are usually /opt, /, and /usr. DD completely ignored what I had setup under the hda entry because the hdb was showing when I clicked next, and did as it damned well pleased to everything but the /swap, completely ignoreing an existing /etc/fstab that was setup exactly the way I wanted it, so it was unusable for anything. Like I said, its drain bamaged. Unusable, worthless, take it away. -- 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) 99.32% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
