Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1461 mails)

[Bob S <911@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 19 May 2009 06:42:53 pm Randall R Schulz wrote:

> > Hello Randall,
> >
> > OK I know where everything is presentlybut if you are doing an
> > upgrade you never get to see the partioner. It just supplies you with
> > this incorrect information.
>
> That is not true. Use the fancy / full-feature partitioner, not the "we
> know what's best for you" mode.
Hello again Randall,

I'm sorry, but it is true, There is no way to access the expert partitioner 
when you try to do an upgrade. (11.0 to 11.2) You can see all of the 
partitions but not their labels which are all marked Linux unknown except for 
the boot partitions which have the bogey (new3ly revised ??) disk letters.

I've used the expert partitioner many times doing installs and reinstalls to 
devise special partitioning schemes and do all of the labeling. You just 
cannot get to  it in this upgrade mode.

> > > Personally, I label all my partitions (including swap partitions)
> > > and use by-label mounting. This is indicated by fstab entries that
> > > use LABEL=driveOrPartitionLabel in the first column..
> >
> > I also use /disk/by-label but as I explained to Greg that doesn't
> > help when you are upgrading blindly.
>
> I only know the expert partitioner, but it shows everything that it can
> detect / determine about existing partitions, and that includes their
> labels.
>
> > Bob S
>
> Randall Schulz


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