https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463327 Summary: Yast sets extended partition to type 83 Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: i686 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.1 Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: opensuse-j@lennefer.de QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: Community User New install of openSuSE 11.1 (DVD, automatic setup) on first partition of a Toshiba Satellite Pro M10 laptop (with 5 partitions on it: 1:openSuse 11.0/ext3, 2:openSuSE 11.0/ext3, 3:Swap, 4:extended, 5:Data/ext3) will always change partition 4 to type 83 (linux), while it should only mount partition 5 on mountpoint /data. After finish of install partition 5 was deleted and partition 4 was unusable. All data on /data were lost!!! Partitions 2 and 3 were not touched and are ok. Yast showed up that it would set partition 4 to type 83, but going back to prevent this was unsuccessful. Editing of partition 4 was not allowed because of "extended type"! Going forward lead into the same message that partition 4 will be set to type 83 and beside the other normal behavior partition 5 would be mounted on /data. While the installation process I recognized that partition 5 was lost and partition 4 was really set to 83, but was not more mountable. fsck.ext2 Message: "Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/sda4. Could this be a zero-length partition?" Rgds, Juergen -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.