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I dual-boot with Windows 7 and I'm looking to make the move from Fedora to Arch. My question is regarding the 'Setup Hard-Drives' step.
I want to use the 'Manually configure block devices, filesystems and mountpoints' t re-use my current setup by simply reformatting my existing Linux partitions. My question is what changes are written if I leave sda1,2 and 3 (my windows partitions and WinRE) as "raw->no-fs" .
(Side note: Peculiarly, trying to use cfdisk in the AIF gives an error about the first partition having an incomplete cylinder, but I can run cfdisk absolutely fine via Fedora. Is this related to my use of lvm?)
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My current partitioning set-up is as follows (fdisk -l).
Disk /dev/sda: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders, total 1465149168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x34d6cace
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 2048 31459327 15728640 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE
/dev/sda2 * 31459328 31664127 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 31664128 765667327 367001600 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4 765667328 1465147391 349740032 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 765671424 766695423 512000 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 766697472 1448364031 340833280 8e Linux LVM
/dev/sda7 1448366080 1465143295 8388608 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/mapper/vg_padraic-LogVol00: 42.9 GB, 42949672960 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5221 cylinders, total 83886080 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Disk /dev/mapper/vg_padraic-LogVol00 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/mapper/vg_padraic-LogVol01: 306.0 GB, 306049974272 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 37208 cylinders, total 597753856 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Disk /dev/mapper/vg_padraic-LogVol01 doesn't contain a valid partition table.
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Leaving the option as raw->no-fs won't make any changes to that partition, also if your not really used to a text based install you could just use a gparted live cd to reformat your drive.
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The "raw -> no-fs" description sounds like complete rubbish to me and nearly caused me to sh*t myself the first time this showed up on the install cd. What's wrong with "no changes" or something like that? "raw/no-fs" sounds to me like it's about to nuke my partition. Unless, of course, someone has a marvelous explanation about how really, raw/no-fs is a much more accurate description of what's about to happen...
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The "raw -> no-fs" description sounds like complete rubbish to me and nearly caused me to sh*t myself the first time this showed up on the install cd. What's wrong with "no changes" or something like that? "raw/no-fs" sounds to me like it's about to nuke my partition. Unless, of course, someone has a marvelous explanation about how really, raw/no-fs is a much more accurate description of what's about to happen...
Have you talked to releng team about this? You may be right, but this needs to get to the devs.
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Well, no...I thought someone must have thought that "raw->no fs" was a great description of what was about to take place. Or maybe, a clever trick to scare away the noobies! Much like the whole installation process, in fact! To be honest, I have no idea what "releng" means, though I suppose I could google it...
Oh.."release engineering"...for FreeBSD? Shome mishtake, shurely?
Anyway, I'll get right on it...
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Yes, 'releng' stands for release engineering. We have e.g. 'Releng Testbuild Feedback' link on the front page (to save space) that takes you to 'Release Engineering Testbuild Results'.
The shorthand is used for the mailing list http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-releng/ and in the url http://releng.archlinux.org/
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