On Monday 17 January 2005 22:17, Jeff Vian wrote: >On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 20:03 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: >> 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. >> > >> > 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. >> >> I tossed all partitions except swap, /ORACLE and /ORACLE/DATA when >> I installed FC3. All of the partitions that I added back appeared >> where I expected them. Oh, I do have four Windows FAT32 >> partitions. > >So let me get this straight, You have at least 6 psrtitons already >defined and you are basically recreating partitions where others > already were. It is no wonder they did not get moved by the > capriciousness of DD. It had to fit them around the other > pre-existing partitons. > Excuse me! Then why the hell didn't it use the existing ones already defined as /boot, /dos, /root, /home, /, /opt and /usr, but without labels as I don't use an initrd? There was no room to fit anything else, the disk was fully utilized prior to DD ever looking at it. Somehow I feel like I'm taking to a wall here, but the echos aren't related to what I'm saying. And what I'm saying is that DD is dane bramaged beyond repair, take it away. >> > 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. Thats pure, green, still warm and as found behind the male of the bovine species. If I want /dev/hda1 to be the boot partition, then I damned well want /dev/hda1 to be used as the /boot partition, I don't need it moved to /dev/hda5 and given several gigabytes at a location that may well be beyond the reach of the bios to boot from. >> This may be desirable. However, it can and does become >> frustrating. >> >> > Gene's comment was related to creating partitions, not >> > reinstalling on existing partitions. No it wasn't, the partitions did exist, and it ignored them totally. >> So was mine. >> >> James McKenzie > >I did not reply to your post, James, I replied to Emmanuel's. >And yes it is very frustrating to have things moved. I as yet see > no benefit from having the tool decide what I want. -- 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.
