On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 14:48 -0400, Chris Lumens wrote: > > > Check out the partitioning code on master, and the clearpart command in > > > pykickstart. --initlabel means to clear the disk label on all disks, > > > not just the ones specified with --drives=. This is probably wrong > > > behavior, but it's what we've done and what people have (hopefully) come > > > to expect. > > > > Maybe now is the time to fix this? > > Now's as good a time as any. Ok. There were other bugs in my patch anyway, so I'll fix it up again and repost. > > > > The one exception to this rule is that we do not initialize the disk > > > label on a disk that has protected partitions. > > > > What exactly do we do? Remove all other partitions from it? > > If there's a protected partition on the disk, we do not initialize the > disk label. Whether or not to remove other partitions is outside the > realm of --initlabel. But in general, yes we would remove the other > partitions and keep the protected ones around. Got it, I think. Dave > > - Chris > > _______________________________________________ > Anaconda-devel-list mailing list > Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
