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pleasen try to be more precise.

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I was trying to install; opensuse 11 b1 on a spare partition, and among some of the issues I had was it recognized my drives in a different order than the 10.3 version on my main partition.

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hat is? give the two layouts

I have a couple of sata drives connected to the motherboard and a 3ware raid array. opensuse 10.3 (or earlier) recognized the motherboard drives first and then the raid array (and partitions on it). opensuse 11 b1 recognized the raid arrays first (sda, sdb, etc...) followed by the directly attached (to motherboard) hard drives.

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Needless to say, I have one huge data partition (~ 2TB) which now comes up at 47.4GB !

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what do you have as disk? I beg some sort of raid with LVM? (there are no drive bigger than 2Tb)

I had a reiser filesystem of about 2TB which was fine. The raid array is 3TB and has several partitions on it.

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anyway you mix *partition* *file system* and probably *disk*

yes, yes, yes, I am not precise enough. I will do better...

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please read my "Partition Rescue Mini HOWTO" available anywhere.

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I will read it. Thank for the pointer. This (about) 2TB partition still appears but the size is now wrong. yast will not mount it so I cannot tell if data is corrupted. fdisk tells me I have a lot of "unallocated" space on the raid array. I suspect the data is still all there (sadly I do not have a means to "backup" such a partition - without creating another 2TG raid array) Vahe ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org