Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3983 mails)

["Brett A. Taylor" <brett@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks,

I'm currently running Mandrake 9.1 but I want to switch to SUSE. I have 3 
partitions on my current hard drive: my main partition (hda1), mounted at / 
as ext3; swap (hda5); and hda6, which is mounted as /home. I have downloaded 
SUSE and it exists on hda6.

What I want to do is format the Mandrake partition on hda1, but *keep* (this 
is the most important part) without loosing *any* data on hda6, and set SUSE 
to mount it as /home.

Is this going to work?

I don't really understand how Linux partitions work very well -- but part of 
what I'm most concerned about is how SUSE is going to tie together the 
existing owners/groups on the hda6 partition with new users created by SUSE.

thanks!


Brett