Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (904 mails)

[Arvin Schnell <aschnell@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 04:09:54PM +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
> Oddball wrote:
>
> > > Wait - are all of those individual partitions?  If the installer
> > > somehow doesn't show those under "Custom Partition", it's a bug.
> > >   
> >
> > Well, than it has been a bug forever, because i do not know any
> > different. I complained about this many times, nobody told me it had
> > to be otherwise.
> >
> > It tells me what filesystem, and the size and number of these
> > partitions: /dev/sda, dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, dev/sda5, etc up to 13, at
> > this time, name/number of the harddisk, those things, but not the
> > custom name. It says something, which i don't remember now, because it
> > doesn't make any sense anyway..
>
> Ah - what you call "the custom name" is the mount-point, which is
> configured in /etc/fstab.  
>
> If I open the partitioner on a running system, I get all partitions and
> mounted disks shown, including mount points.
>
> On a system you're about to install, there is no /etc/fstab, so YaST
> cannot tell where the various partitions should be mounted.

YaST can do this for you: In the "Expert Partitioner" use the
"Expert..." button and then the entry "Import Mount Points from
existing /etc/fstab".

In openSUSE 11.1 this will be at a more prominent position.

cu
  Arvin

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Arvin Schnell, <aschnell@xxxxxxx>
Software Engineer, Research & Development
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
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