Feature added by: Alexander shaduri (alex_sh) Feature #307378, revision 1 Title: YaST2 Partitioner should detect external partition type changes and update fstab openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Alexander shaduri (alex_sh) Description: If partition was changed from fat32 to ntfs externally, there's no way to specify that in YaST Partitioner. Initial partition layout: sda1: fat32 (empty), sda2: ext3 linux /, etc... The 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. 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". I filed it as a bug https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524784 and was told that this was a feature request - "The partitioner does assume that the enties in fstab are correct and does not try to fix them. Changing this behaviour requires a feature request." So, here it is. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307378