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I wanted to reinstall my Gentoo system. A SUSE (back before OpenSUSE) disc was the newest distro I had lying around. I thought it shouldn't matter from which system I do the install, Gentoo won't care.
So I repartitioned
/dev/hda, installed the base system and went to set up my mount points. Only to discover that my data drive was gone. Stupid SUSE labeled the drives differently./dev/hdbwas my old system drive and I had repartitioned my old data drive.Taught me to really check which drive was which. I wouldn't touch SUSE again for decades because of this.