http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=595577 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=595577#c0 Summary: Yast's default partitioning proposal is to reformat existing /home partition Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.3 Version: Milestone 4 Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.3 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: jehawking@yahoo.co.uk QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.0) Gecko/20100115 SUSE/3.6.0-2.1 Firefox/3.6 Previous operating system was Opensuse 11.2 with sda1 for swap, sda2 for root and sda4 for /home. sda3 was not present but there was one unallocated block between sda2 and sda4. sda2 and sda4 were both ext3 partitions. Using the DVD for Milestone 4, I did a fresh install and the partitioning plan proposed by Yast was to reformat sda4 and split it into 3 partitions, swap, root and (probably) home. It did ask permission to do this and I was able to manually persuade it to reformat sda1 and 2 and reuse those which was what I wanted - but it was not obvious how to do this and it took some experimenting to achieve it. I wanted a clean install (lot of cruft left from previous installations) so did not consider upgrade. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot up computer with installation dvd in drive 2. Select Install 3. Enter default responses to licence etc Actual Results: Yast presented its proposal for the installation which included reformatting my /home partition. A novice could easily have agreed to this and lost their data. Expected Results: In this case there is probably no automatic solution to where yast should put the new install (no empty space) so it almost certainly has to present the user with the possible options and ask for guidance. Probably several options need to be presented one of which has to be positively selected - no defaults and no automatic options. I think I remember earlier versions having the same feature - so its probably not new. Having passed this point in the install, I do not want to undo the progress I have made to try to replicate it. Sorry about that. -- 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.