Because the RH6.1 installation blindly went out and reset all of the
hard disk partition tables, I've lost years worth of work.
Yes, there is a note on the left that says the Linux data will be lost.
The LINUX data, not MY data. Instead of listing all of the Linux partitions
that it found and asking which ones it can remove, and/or, which ones it
can use but leave the partitions the same, it blindly destroys.
That is very nasty and very bad. Situations could arise where the system needs
to be reloaded, but not everything needs to be screwed with and RedHat's
installation totally screwed me.
Right now I am extremely unhappy with what RedHat's installation did to me.
The installation MUST be fixed so that disks are not blindly destroyed.
Little warnings on the left just don't cut it. Especially when previous
installations at least gave you the chance to keep a partition from
being destroyed.
Another thing, the Disk Druid program still sucks. That thing has a real
problem figuring out that when there is 4886 MB left on a disk and you
give it 4886, that it shouldn't shouldn't complain about there not being
enough space on the drive for the partiton. I spent way too much time
plugging in numbers and managed to get it so that only 1MB was left over.
That program needs a lot of work.
Where is FDISK when you need it?
BTW, before someone says, where are your tape backups... the Exabyte
drive died. So, I used the available space on the other drive to backup
the system, foolishing thinking that the drive would be left alone.
MB (A very pissed off RedHat user at the moment)
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