Hi Uwe, Doing automated installation of server with / on ext3 on software RAID 1 mirror of /dev/sda2 and /dev/sdb2 and /home on xfs on software RAID 10 of /dev/sda3, /dev/sdb3, /dev/sdc3, /dev/sdd3. I want to preserve /home when doing an automated reinstall of the machine. I can keep the existing partitions fine and they get assigned to MD devices correctly. However whilst the partitions are being kept fine, I see the messages "deleting MD device" (or some such wording), followed by "creating MD device" (or similar wording) and indeed it then fails to mount /home as the xfs file system is not there any more. )-: If I set <create config:type="boolean">false</create> for the partitions on the /dev/md device in the autoyast file then the md devices are still destroyed but then not created again so the install fails immediately as there is nowhere to install. )-: Is this a bug or a feature? Is there any way I can get autoyast to preserve the existing md devices? If you want to see my autoyast partitioning section, this is it: <partitioning config:type="list"> <drive> <device>/dev/sda</device> <initialize>false</initialize> <disklabel>gpt</disklabel> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <partition_nr config:type="integer">1</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <partition_id config:type="integer">253</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <raid_name>/dev/md0</raid_name> <raid_type>raid1</raid_type> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <partition_id config:type="integer">253</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">3</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <raid_name>/dev/md2</raid_name> <raid_type>raid10</raid_type> </partition> </partitions> <use>1,2,3</use> </drive> <drive> <device>/dev/sdb</device> <initialize>false</initialize> <disklabel>gpt</disklabel> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <partition_nr config:type="integer">1</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <partition_id config:type="integer">253</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <raid_name>/dev/md0</raid_name> <raid_type>raid1</raid_type> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <partition_id config:type="integer">253</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">3</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <raid_name>/dev/md2</raid_name> <raid_type>raid10</raid_type> </partition> </partitions> <use>1,2,3</use> </drive> <drive> <device>/dev/sdc</device> <initialize>false</initialize> <disklabel>gpt</disklabel> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <partition_nr config:type="integer">1</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <partition_id config:type="integer">253</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <raid_name>/dev/md1</raid_name> <raid_type>raid1</raid_type> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <partition_id config:type="integer">253</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">3</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <raid_name>/dev/md2</raid_name> <raid_type>raid10</raid_type> </partition> </partitions> <use>1,2,3</use> </drive> <drive> <device>/dev/sdd</device> <initialize>false</initialize> <disklabel>gpt</disklabel> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <partition_nr config:type="integer">1</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <partition_id config:type="integer">253</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <raid_name>/dev/md1</raid_name> <raid_type>raid1</raid_type> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <partition_id config:type="integer">253</partition_id> <partition_nr config:type="integer">3</partition_nr> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <raid_name>/dev/md2</raid_name> <raid_type>raid10</raid_type> </partition> </partitions> <use>1,2,3</use> </drive> <drive> <device>/dev/md</device> <initialize>false</initialize> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <mount>/</mount> <mountby config:type="symbol">device</mountby> <partition_nr config:type="integer">0</partition_nr> <raid_options> <chunk_size>4</chunk_size> <raid_type>raid1</raid_type> </raid_options> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <mount>swap</mount> <mountby config:type="symbol">device</mountby> <partition_nr config:type="integer">1</partition_nr> <raid_options> <chunk_size>4</chunk_size> <raid_type>raid1</raid_type> </raid_options> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <filesystem config:type="symbol">xfs</filesystem> <fstopt>relatime,barrier,largeio,logbufs=8,logbsize=256k,swalloc</fstopt> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize> <mount>/home</mount> <mountby config:type="symbol">device</mountby> <partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr> <raid_options> <chunk_size>64</chunk_size> <raid_type>raid10</raid_type> </raid_options> </partition> </partitions> <use>all</use> </drive> </partitioning> Btw. the disks are gpt as they are 3TiB disks... PS. I am installing SLES 11 SP2 x86_64 if that matters. Thanks a lot in advance! Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+owner@opensuse.org