Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3506 mails)

[Paul Abrahams <abrahams@xxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 17 September 2006 6:16 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Monday 18 September 2006 00:01, Paul Abrahams wrote:
> > It was already formatted and had useful contents, so I wasn't going to
> > disturb it.  But in fact all the other partitions have the same problem
> > in the partitioner in the 10.0 installer.  And they don't have the
> > problem in an ordinary Yast.
> >
> > It's not at all clear to me why the mount point section would ever be
> > grayed out by the partitioner, especially since the blurb on the side
> > says that anything can be changed.  In fact, nothing can be changed.
>
> Is it set to be of a particular type?

It's reiserfs, type 83 (as it should be).  That's how it was formatted.

> I don't have the installer's partitioner in front of me, but if it's set to
> be something other than linux native (or something similar) it might be
> that it's not detected as mountable
>
> What used to be on this partition? What is the file system on it?

It's the root filesystem and the stuff that normally goes there.

> If you select to format it, does that make the mount point selection
> enabled?

no - though that might change if I actually formatted it, which of course I 
don't want to do.

Paul