On 2013-02-01 20:48 (GMT+1100) doiggl@velocitynet.com.au composed:
On Fri, 1 Feb 2013 13:34:10 +0400, Andrey Borzenkov composed:
Fri, 01 Feb 2013 04:29:42 -0500 Felix Miata composed:
On 2013-02-01 12:40 (GMT+0400) Andrey Borzenkov composed:
I was a bit surprised to see default suggestion to remove existing Fedora install. Are we on war with Fedora or what? :)
Is Fedora using 5GB on LVM taking up a whole 500GB HD?
Yes, Fedora is using full 5GB disk.
Where did you find such a small HD? How did you get Fedora to use it without complaining about lack of space?
Third disk is completely empty and avaiable. So there was really no reason to offer to remove anything. ... There are 3 types of disk partitions:
Primary Extended Logical
...
Primary partitions can be bootable and are limited to four partitions per disk or RAID volume. If a partitioning scheme requires more than four partitions, an extended partition containing logical partitions is used.
Can be used, not necessarily is. LVM could be used instead, and Fedora likes LVM. ...
This is an example of dual boot setup # fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 64.0 GB, 64023257088 bytes ... Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 63 41046074 20523006 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2 * 41048064 61528063 10240000 83 Linux /dev/sda3 61528950 120119295 29295173 83 Linux /dev/sda4 120119296 125044735 2462720 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Above is an example of a HD that's used up all space for primary partitions, and thus cannot be rearranged to fit something else without destroying what's already there. If YaST cannot see HD #3, it naturally would ask to replace such a scheme instead of modifying it. Did/does YaST see the 3rd HD? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org