David C. Rankin wrote:
Jamie Griffin wrote:
Hi
Just wanted to query something with the partitioning on my disk.
I had to reinstall the OS this evening (KDE 10.3) and it looks as though the previous partitions for previous system are still present which is not what i had intended. I don't much about this, so i'm not sure if it's something i need to be concerned about or not, but i do want to make sure i haven't caused a problem.
I opened Kdiskfree which shows the following:
DEVICE TYPE SIZE MOUNT POINT
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD16.... ext3 N/A / /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD16 ext3 N/A /home /dev/fd0 auto N/A /media/floppy
/dev/sda5 ? 19.7GB / /dev/sda6 ? 105.4GB /home debugfs debugfs N/A /sys/kernel udev ? 1,002MB /dev
Does this look right?
During the install i wanted to completely remove the previous installation and repartition the new OS using the whole disk, but i'm not certain that has happened.
I'm using a SATA 160GB hard drive on a Dell XPS laptop on 64bit Architecture.
I'd be really grateful if someone could explain what has happened and if i need to be concerned at all.
I''m sorry if this seems a silly request, i just want to understand what i've done.
Thanks in advance, Jamie
Jamie,
What I have found is the 10.3 install will attempt to create new partitions regardless of existing partitions, but it will number the new partitions as if the old partitions exist. Specifically if you have one disk with 2 existing partitions and one extended partition:
sda1 / sda2 /boot sda5 /home
When you install 10.3 either again or for the first time with the old install being 10.2 or something really recent, yast will propose:
sda3 / sda6 /boot sda7 /home
Which is quite annoying. When I get to the partitioning part of the install, I just click on "Partitions" choose "custom partitioning" the _delete_ all existing partitions. You can then choose "propose a new partitioning scheme" and usually yast gets it right (sda1, sda2, sda5, etc.) or you can the edit what yast "proposed" to adjust the partition sizes, etc.
[rest deleted] Most interesting David. I have now installed 10.3 at least 6 times and have not come across this problem you describe above. I never accept what SuSE suggests; I always choose the Expert mode option, and have always had the Partitioner show the correct configuration of my HDs and the partitions (for me to delete/create/edit). Ciao. -- I'm dangerous when I know what I'm doing. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org