On Wednesday 03 March 2010, Craig White wrote: >On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 11:43 +0530, Jatin K wrote: >> On 03/03/2010 11:26 AM, Tim wrote: >> > On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 16:38 +0530, Jatin K wrote: >> >> how do I exactly maintain the said order of the partition in >> >> exercise ?? >> > >> > One answer: Use a command line tool, like fdisk, that does exactly >> > what you tell it to, rather than a GUI tool which works in the manner >> > it thinks best. >> > >> > Over the last few years, I've let disk druid do its thing if I'm >> > prepared to accept the automatic defaults, but (part way through >> > running the install disc) I've usually swapped over to the command >> > line, if I want to do something different. And I'll set up the drive >> > how I want it, then go back to the install routine, and just select the >> > partitions I want the installer to use, without reformatting any of >> > them. >> > >> > Particularly so for servers, where I've not only wanted a specific >> > layout, but also wanted the reliability assurance of running a bad >> > block test as well as the format. When setting up a server, I'd rather >> > spend the time doing integrity checks beforehand, than be surprised by >> > something nasty much later on, when it's wrecked my work. >> > >> > I don't know why disc druid re-arranges the order of partitions, I >> > could only guess that the author might think that certain things (boot, >> > swap) are better at the start or middle of the drive, and arranges >> > things to what they think are optimum. >> >> suppose one is doing RHCE exam .... and question is to partition a >> disk in said order what he/she should do ??? if disk druid changes the >> partition order automatically >> >> does partition ordering is serious matter for the RHCE exam ???? >> according to question swap partition should be on hda2 and / partition >> should be on hda3 , what is can be done if disk druid changes the >> partition order randomly ?? >> >> if any RHCE is reading this list .....please explain the matter > >---- >before you actually start with disk druid in anaconda, you just switch >to virtual console <Control><Alt><F2> and then run 'fdisk /dev/sda' and >create your partitions in fdisk, switch back to anaconda ><Control><Alt><F7> and then use the partitions you created in fdisk. > >Craig > With all due respect Craig, the ctrl-alt-F2 to get another screen has yet to give me a shell on that screen, _if_ it gives me a 2nd screen, which 90% of the time doesn't happen, those key combos are ignored by nash. For the new bee, there simply does not exist any method to get around fedoras use of a broken disk partitioning tool unless it has been fixed _since_ F10. -- 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) A violent man will die a violent death. -- Lao Tsu -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
