Sinisa wrote:
On 10/27/09 11:09, Per Jessen wrote:
Sinisa wrote:
Hello everyone,
is this the right place to suggest two little features for Yast2 partitioner:
1. an option to clone partition layout from one disk to other: I often make little servers with 4, 6 or even 10 disks and Linux RAID, so I need to repeat all the steps for all of the disks (of course, I do not use the a whole disk for one md partition, but at least for two, plus swap) and that consumes a lot of time and is error-prone... Until it is implemented, just swap out into a shell, and copy the mbr from disk to disk with dd.
/Per
Actually, better way would be "sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk /dev/sdb", it calls ioctl to re-read partition tables when done, but there is a little problem: there is no option (in 11.1) to commit changes to disk during patitioning, so I first run "fdisk" on first disk, then "sfdisk ..." for all the others, and then "Rescan disks" from partitioner.
And I am always looking for a way to make it easier for "average Joe" :)
Hi Siniša you're right, sfdisk would be better. One comment - installing on a system with that many disks is not really something "average Joe" does a lot :-) /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (10.1°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org