Hi !

First of all I want to explain my environment:

I had 3 ntfs partitions (500MB, 10Gig, 800MB), 2 Fat32 Partitions (2x10 Gig),3 
Gig ext3 for system, 5 Gig Reiser for home and a littlebit swap. 

Today I tought I didn't need that 800 Meg Ntfs and could delete it and make a 
ext3 out of that. So I started diskdrake and delete it, causing that all 
partitions got renumbered. Fine I thought, so diskdrake will rewrite my fstab 
too. After trying to make a ext3-partition on the 800 Megs of free space, 
diskdrake told me to restart in order to make the changes take effect. No 
matter I thought , do a reboot. 

The effects:
-> kernel panic on shutting down
-> kernel panic on boot

starting rescue mode: 
-> "/"-partition wasn't there anymore (was there but with filesystem 0xFFFFFF)
-> trough the renumbering all entries in fstab was wrong (looked at it before 
reboot, no matter here since I had at least to do a full install anyway)

Now I did a new install and it works all...

What I want to mention:

diskdrake should not screw up my whole system, at least it should make the 
fstab entries right after changes in the partitiontable. Thanks god that my 
/home wasn't screwed.



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