Bug 146954

Summary:	default partition is set to REMOVE all existing partitions
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Ronny Bremer <rbremer>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Thomas Fehr <fehr>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Blocker
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	kernel01
Version:	Beta 2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Ronny Bremer 2006-01-31 15:06:57 UTC

This is a major break from previous releases. It should be validated. Installing 10.1 (New install, no upgrade) without custom partitioning will cause all existing data to be lost.

Is this just for the beta or is it to remain in the 10.1 GC?

Please change it back to the old behaviour of retaining existing partitions.

Comment 1 Martin Lasarsch 2006-01-31 15:43:35 UTC

please attach /var/log/YaST/*

and fdisk -l

btw: on my installation it selected an existing partition without removing the other ones.

Comment 2 Carl-Daniel Hailfinger 2006-02-01 19:15:28 UTC

Hm, I'm seeing the same. Maybe this is related to the fact that I use LVM and the suggested deletion affects the LVM volumes on /dev/hdb.

See attachment 66075 [details] for my y2logs.

Comment 3 Carl-Daniel Hailfinger 2006-02-01 21:44:31 UTC

And that attachment also includes "fdisk -l" for both of my disks.

Hint: If somebody attaches /var/log/YaST2/*, it always contains "fdisk -l" output for all disks in the files /var/log/YaST2/disk_*

Comment 4 Thomas Fehr 2006-02-02 15:08:39 UTC

The case in comment #2 looks basically fine, it removes hda8 (which belongs 
to LVM). There is no other choice for it (swap is reused, hdb5 and hdb6 are too
small) to make the needed room for a new root and /home partition. 

It basically selects hdb over hda since your hdb is much larger than your hda.
I plan to improved the suggestions to make more often reuse of existing 
partitions if these are of sufficient size, but we changed to propsal to
suggest an additional /home for SL 10.1 so reuse is not always possible.
In the case of your hdb in comment#2 this would not change anything.

To original reporter, I need yast2 log files to see if something is going wrong.

Comment 5 Andreas Jaeger 2006-03-20 09:32:19 UTC

No yast log files provided for 8 weeks, closing as INVALID now.

Ronny, if you can reproduce this with Beta8, please open a new bugreport.

Comment 6 Ronny Bremer 2006-04-01 11:24:06 UTC

Andreas,

I was unable to test until beta8 due to a kernel bug. Installed beta 9 today and the problem I described is definitely fixed!

Thank you.

Ronny