[Bug 524784] New: If partition was changed from fat32 to ntfs externally, there's no way to specify that in YaST Partitioner
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524784 Summary: If partition was changed from fat32 to ntfs externally, there's no way to specify that in YaST Partitioner Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: PC OS/Version: openSUSE 11.1 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: ashaduri@gmail.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- User-Agent: Opera/9.64 (X11; Linux x86_64; U; en) Presto/2.1.1 Initial partition layout: sda1: fat32 (empty) sda2: ext3 linux / etc... First thing I did was install openSUSE 11.1. YaST correctly identified fat32 partition and wrote the respective line to fstab. Then, I installed Vista on sda1. The problem with Vista is that it won't install to fat32, it needs ntfs. So, it converted sda1 to ntfs and installed ok. Now, the problem is that fstab in openSUSE still contained "vfat" as filesystem type. KDE4 wouldn't open in from Konqueror, etc... I tried to make YaST re-learn the type of sda1, so it would write the correct line to fstab, since I didn't remember what are the openSUSE-default options for ntfs-3g. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a way to do this. I think this will affect lots of people who, for example, had XP and decided to switch to Vista. Also, since openSUSE doesn't allow formatting to ntfs, this will also affect all the people who install Linux on a clean disk (reserving a space for Windows with fat32 partition), and then install XP or Vista, converting the filesystem to ntfs in the process. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install openSUSE on a clean disk, making the first partition fat32. 2. Convert the first partition to ntfs via third-party tool. 3. Try to use the drive from openSUSE as an average "joe the user". -- 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.
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shuang qiu
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Arvin Schnell
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--- Comment #2 from Alexander shaduri
Maybe the repair module does the job you want.
Well, I haven't tried that, mainly because there's no such thing in my YaST2 window (is it a bug?). Running "yast2 repair" launches the repair module, but that's not exactly intuitive. I haven't really tried executing it on my production system though, now that everything's working fine, I don't want to mess it up by accident. I'll file it at features.opensuse.org, if this is indeed a feature request (a part of a system stopping to work clearly looks like a bug to me though). -- 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.
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--- Comment #3 from Arvin Schnell
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