richard bown wrote:
I'm inclined to agree about the reinstall, I guessed that when the installer made the suggestion of just formatting hda6 & hda8 it was using the whole of the partition table that I'd been using on the previous install, which was Mandriva 2007.
It would not do that unless you instructed it to do so. The partitioner does not go about reusing whatever space you've already got allocated.
I see now that Suse handles the disk partitions in a totally different way to Mandrake, where all the partitions are sequential, not as a sub-partition of one big one.
I'm certain Mandriva can do that too - it's not really about the distro, it's the standard partitioning on PCs work. You have up to 4 physical partitions, of which one may be an extended partition which can have another number of logical partitions. If all your physical partitions are either taken or no more space is available for a physical partition, the SUSE partitioner will look for space in an extended partition (if there is one) and use some of that.
If the Suse installer used a graphical illustration of the partition table as with Mandriva/Mandrake, I would have spotted this. However, I just assumed that it was a clever installer and was using the partition table that already existed..
Actually, I think it IS clever and does not reuse whatever is already there, the thinking being that you might want to hold on to it :-) /Per Jessen, Zürich -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com