On Wednesday 17 August 2005 19:27, John Clemens wrote:
So what exactly does 'initialize' do
You alread got that right, it's doing what you already expect. It wipes out the partition table, so that you start from scratch.
and when should it be used?
that's a good question John. I don't really see a reason for using that. In your case I just had the suspicion that it leads to trouble to clear the partition table and reread it and that's why I recommended to turn initialize off. It was just a guess, you actually did nothing wrong in using initialize. For example, I never had problems in using the initialize by myself. -- ciao, Uwe Gansert Uwe Gansert, Server Technologies Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, D-90409 Nürnberg, Germany e-mail: uwe.gansert@suse.de, Tel: +49-(0)911-74053-0, Fax: +49-(0)911-74053-476, Web: http://www.suse.de