Re: [SLE] Install/Partioning Help

On Saturday 07 June 2003 08:54, Jerry Feldman wrote:

On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 02:20:52 -0400

"Bob S." wrote:

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Hello Suse People,

Doing a fresh install of 8.2 over 8.0. (Personal) Want to change some of my partitions around some. No size changes. Have some questions at the partitioning screen. I am somewhat familiar with hard drive partioning.

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Now at the partioning screen Yast suggests/has added another logical partion, hdb9 =/ which is 1.9 gigs. Don't know where it got it from and is scheduled to be formatted.

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Yast states, NONE... of the other drives, regular or logical will be formatted. Don't understand this because hdb1 was the original / . Does this mean that all of the old boot stuff from / will remain? because of

Important and source of confusion... the new hdb9 designated as / ???

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The reason for the repartitioning is that I would like to create a /home partition

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I am thinking accept hdb9 =/ as suggested by Yast even though it is only 1.9 gigs,( worry about var, opt, etc.) and then format the original hdb1 from / to /home.

Or, would it be better to format the original hdb1 and reuse it? ( 4.5 gigs) Then use the newfound hdb9 for something else.

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I could also create an LVM / LVM's? But I have no idea about that. Can anyone direct me to the "Administration Guide"

I'm going to avoid LVM because that is more involved.

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Hope that some partitioning guru will give me some advice here.

YaST will not touch your /newlinux or /data filesystems as long as you do not mark them as format.

Then after you install and everything is working, then convert any existing ext2 filesystem to ext3. Here are the steps ..<snip>.....

OK, understood. Thank you for that. Please explain to me though, when Yast says it will not format the original hdb1 which was / and suggests a new / partition at hdb9. That is the big thing that confuses me. What happens to the original hdb1 =/ ? Do I end up with an old and a new / partition??

WRT:/hdb3=/usr.

When you upgrade from one release to another, the new system files are updated. This includes /usr. Assuming you do a clean install, you should have the /usr file system formatted.

OK, that is also understood,except that Yast said it was not going to format hdb3 =/usr. What you have stated is logical and is what should happen. I guess there is a difference between overwrite and format? which is not clear to me? But, going back to the old hdb1 =/. Yast states it will not be formatted. Why is it not overwritten like /usr? and used for / instead of creating a new hdb9 for / ???? Thanks for answering some of this. Hope you or someone else can answer the rest. Bob S.