On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 16:38 +0530, Jatin K wrote: > how do I exactly maintain the said order of the partition in > exercise ?? One answer: Use a command line tool, like fdisk, that does exactly what you tell it to, rather than a GUI tool which works in the manner it thinks best. Over the last few years, I've let disk druid do its thing if I'm prepared to accept the automatic defaults, but (part way through running the install disc) I've usually swapped over to the command line, if I want to do something different. And I'll set up the drive how I want it, then go back to the install routine, and just select the partitions I want the installer to use, without reformatting any of them. Particularly so for servers, where I've not only wanted a specific layout, but also wanted the reliability assurance of running a bad block test as well as the format. When setting up a server, I'd rather spend the time doing integrity checks beforehand, than be surprised by something nasty much later on, when it's wrecked my work. I don't know why disc druid re-arranges the order of partitions, I could only guess that the author might think that certain things (boot, swap) are better at the start or middle of the drive, and arranges things to what they think are optimum. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
