Disk Druid - Fedora flame #1

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Tue Jan 18 05:27:01 UTC 2005


On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 08:31:23PM -0600, Jeff Vian wrote:
> 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. 
> 

It's very easy to uncheck the disks where you don't want a given partition
to end up. Or to force it to be a primary partition.

It's also very easy to press ctrl-alt-f2 and get a shell; if that's not
working, there's an X bug or something.



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