http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537084 Summary: Partitioner may clear labels on new installs. Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: Factory Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: carlos.e.r@opensuse.org QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090730 SUSE/3.5.2-2.4 Firefox/3.5.2 I installed openSUSE-DVD-Build0233-i586.iso last night. 11.2 M6. The partitioner made a proposal to format sda11 as / and sda20 as /home. The rationale for choosing those is unknown/unguessable to me: the first one is a production /home partition, the second is my big storage partition. The correct guess would have been one of the four existing / partitions. Better, it should provide a list of partitions to choose from, not select one directly, and use that user provided list to make a new proposal. However, I expected that behaviour, it is not new to me. I edited the partition, said "not format", removed those mountpoints, set another partition for format and use, added several other partitions... I see there is an entry to list all changes. There I see the correct partitions, but it says that the labels for the two partitions that were on the original proposal are going to be cleared! Even if they are not going to be formatted. That would make my production system broken. There is no place I could find to tell the partitioner not to clear the labels. I had to go back, select the option to make a new partition setting from scratch in expert mode (I forgot the exact wording, sorry), and redo. Another problem: on this new table I selected defaults, to mount by label and format as reiserfs. The mount by label setting as default was ignored, I had to manually select it for each new or old partition. Reproducible: Always -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.