On 8/25/10 8:14 AM, Tom Browder wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 06:52, Rodney D. Myers <rod_myers@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>> On 8/25/10 7:49 AM, Tom Browder wrote:
> ...
>>> Can anyone say for sure what will happen during installation with an
>>> existing ext4 partition to be retained?
> ...
>> What other partitions? I'll assume /home, and anything else?
>
> I have three disks with the partition setup as follows (mount points are shown):
>
> d1 (4 partitions):
>
> /boot - ext2 # will reformat
> / - ext3 # will reformat
> /usr/local - ext4 # keep
> swap # will reformat
>
> keep:
>
> d2 (1 partition): /disk2 - ext4
> d3 (1 partition): /disk3 - ext4
>
> Normally with other distros I would use manual disk setup during
> installation and use the labels I have on the partitions to assign the
> mount points.
>
> I assume I can probably get away with ignoring disks 2 and 3 and set
> them up later, so I'm not concerned about them so much during
> installation. In a pinch I can probably do the same with the
> /usr/local partition on disk 1. But I would like to avoid those
> actions if I can.
>
> Note that I have a "people" directory under "/usr/local" instead of
> "/home" since that's the way I learned under Irix many years ago and
> so it's for "historical" reasons as they say.
>
> Thanks, Rodney.
>
> -Tom
When installing, and the "experts" will correct me if I'm wring ;-) ,
use the expert system when doing the drive formatting. In there, you can
mark each partition as keep, ignore, format, etc. Also in there, you can
assign each partition a mount point as well.
Hope this makes sense.
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