On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 06:52, Rodney D. Myers <rod_my...@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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlkti=nlceqqskse+x+8+byqk64dd_8i5caurvsa...@mail.gmail.com
