On Sat, 23 Jun 2012, ken wrote: *snip*
I've been caught out before when installing Linux with existing data on several partitions, and had my partitions and data trashed. My work around is to only let the installer use / tmp and swap. That way it cannot touch my partitions with data on them.
I've done at least a dozen, maybe three or four dozen installs, with (actual) redhat, suse, centos, and probably others too, but have never had that happen to me. Linux has even recognized every Windows partition I've had and has left those alone to when I've asked it to. This might be because I always select "Custom Install" at the very beginning of the process. IMS, if you select "New Install" (or words to that effect), you don't have the option to select partitions you want to leave untouched during the install.
Hi Ken.
IIRC that happened a some years ago with Ubuntu. Ever since that happened I've been wary of the various different custom options available from different Linux distros. I just use the Gparted Live CD to do any partition work. I don't use LVM either yet, so that's not a problem for me now.
Kind Regards,
Keith
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