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Re: [SLE] Yast partitioning tool can't set mount points
- From: Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 22:16:40 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <200609180016.30433.andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>
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?
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?
If you select to format it, does that make the mount point selection enabled?
> 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?
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?
If you select to format it, does that make the mount point selection enabled?
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