Mwa, but still ack.
On 11/25/2009 11:55 PM, David Lehman wrote:
There's some broken hueristic in mkswap that leads it to sometimes
mistake a logical volume for a disk and hence refuse to format it,
citing something about bootblocks. Nonsense.
---
storage/devicelibs/swap.py | 4 +++-
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/storage/devicelibs/swap.py b/storage/devicelibs/swap.py
index 1afd209..bd07f19 100644
--- a/storage/devicelibs/swap.py
+++ b/storage/devicelibs/swap.py
@@ -32,7 +32,9 @@ _ = lambda x: gettext.ldgettext("anaconda", x)
def mkswap(device, label=''):
- argv = []
+ # We use -f to force since mkswap tends to refuse creation on lvs with
+ # a message about erasing bootbits sectors on whole disks. Bah.
+ argv = ["-f"]
if label:
argv.extend(["-L", label])
argv.append(device)
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