[opensuse-autoinstall] 11.3 install: partitioning_advanced reusing 10.3 partitions

6 Oct 2010

      Hello,

I'm trying to install Suse 10.3 machines with 11.3 reusing the existing fstab with this:
http://www.suse.com/~ug/autoyast_doc/CreateProfile.Partitioning.html#id37680...

<partitioning_advanced>
       <fstab>
	<!-- Read data from existing fstab. If multiple root partitions are
	found, use the one specified below. Otherwise the first root
	partition is taken -->
	<!-- <root_partition>/dev/hda5</root_partition> -->
	<use_existing_fstab config:type="boolean">true</use_existing_fstab>
	<!-- all partitions found in fstab will be formatted and mounted
	by default unless a partition is listed below with different
	settings -->
	<partitions config:type="list">
	  <partition>
	    <format config:type="boolean">false</format>
	    <mount>/bootmirror</mount>
	  </partition>
	</partitions>
       </fstab>
     </partitioning_advanced>

by trial and error I found that it is just the other way round:
Partitions not listed will be remounted unformated.
If I want a partition to be formated I have to list it explicitly

	<partitions config:type="list">
	  <partition>
	    <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
	    <mount>/bootmirror</mount>
	  </partition>
	</partitions>

Can this observation be confirmed?

thanks in advance
Axel Geyer
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