OK, I may not be a ROCKET SCI, but isnt that why your suppose to:
BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP!!!!!
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Vidiot wrote:
> 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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