Disk Druid - Fedora flame #1
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Tue Jan 18 03:56:49 UTC 2005
On Monday 17 January 2005 21:31, Jeff Vian wrote:
>On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 00:40 +0100, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 10:45:56AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> > Except for DD's insistance on re-arranging partitions. I've had
>> > enough headaches and screwed up installs that DD will never
>> > touch another disk of mine, ever.
>>
>> I have no idea which Disk Druid you're using but it obviously
>> isn't the one shipped with Fedora's installation program.
>>
>> I've installed (from scratch) all the Fedoras one after the other
>> on the same computer. In all cases, DD only formated the
>> partitions I told it to partition ( the / and swap partitions) and
>> left the others (a partition I mount on /media/data and /home)
>> intact.
>>
>> > To the redhat/fedora packagers: Please, please, please give us
>> > back fdisk, its not broken like DD, and it doesn't decide to
>> > format your /home or /root partitions and use them for / in the
>> > next incarnation.
>>
>> If you prefer fdisk, then just use that instead of DD.
>>
>> Emmanuel
>
>Gene is not the only one to have problems.
>I have had it rearrange partitions, but NEVER on a prepartitioned
> disk which is what you used, and what is given by using fdisk to
> create the partition before defining the mount points with disk
> druid.
>
>On an unpartitioned disk it chooses where the partition goes. If
> there are more than one disk it by default chooses both (or all)
> disks as the possible targets. If you create say 5 partitons and
> you build them in the order you want them placed IT chooses the
> order (and drive) it feels is best for creating them. So what you
> thought was hda2 may actually become hdb3, etc.
>
>Gene's comment was related to creating partitions, not reinstalling
> on existing partitions.
Yes, in the case of the 4GB drive hdb, it was redoing a windows
install I have no use for. For hda, it was pre-partitioned they way
I wanted it earlier, but DD didn't act like it could read the
existing partition table. I know, I stopped, backed out and
rechecked it with a boot disk that had fdisk on it. The partitions
were as I wanted them, but when DD got done with it, I frankly had
NDI what was where. I commonly setup the first two partitions of
only 100MB each as /dev/hda1=/boot, and /dev/hda2=/DOS (vfat
formatted in case I need to boot drdos). The rest of the disks
assignments depend on what I'm going to do with that box, but usually
include a goodly chunk as /dev/hda3=/root as I run as root 99.44% of
the time. Likewise a big enough /dev/hda5=/home partition that I can
have a few amanda builds living there. Then hda6-7-8 are
usually /opt, /, and /usr.
DD completely ignored what I had setup under the hda entry because the
hdb was showing when I clicked next, and did as it damned well
pleased to everything but the /swap, completely ignoreing an
existing /etc/fstab that was setup exactly the way I wanted it, so it
was unusable for anything.
Like I said, its drain bamaged. Unusable, worthless, take it away.
--
Cheers, Gene
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