Hi Anas, first of all: in the dtd-files (from autoyast2-installation.rpm) there are no definitions for all the "partitioning_advanced" stuff are missing. About the feature itself I have one question and one proposal: - How can one implement the following scenario: If there is a fstab, use it. If no fstab is found, go on with some other profiles, i.e. format according to the size of the hard disk. I'm not sure how to define this in the profile. - I would vote for a change in the default behaviour of formatting! AY1 used to leave all found partitions untouched and just format those, that were explicitely specified. Now with AY2 doing this the other way around, the feature is very dangerous: I have about 60 machines here, most of them having the same hard disk partitions. But there are always a handfull of machines that have Raids attached, additional hard disks etc. What I want to do is leaving all partitions untouched,but just format "/" and "/boot" on every machine. For that, I would need only one profile for all hosts, if the partitions were not formatted automatically. The current behaviour of AY2 is dangerous in that I might once forget to specify a partition that exists on some hosts, and then it will eventually get formatted. So, maybe a boolean flag in the <fstab> element, specifying if formatting or not-formatting is the default, could help? cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. *