On Monday 31 March 2008 12:44:24 pm Michal Jaegermann wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 07:17:05AM -0400, John M Cavallo wrote: > > I believe anaconda did write a label of '/' when one already existed. I > > will try to confirm this this evening. > > If that is really the case that would be a nasty bug; especially > that anaconda was avoiding doing that for quite a while. I reinstalled with the root partition of my Fedora 8 labeled '/' and the 9 partition '/f9' and it kept the name. Apologies for the mistake. > > OTOH it is been often very annoying that anaconda does not have an > option which would allow you to specify your own labels. This is > not a show-stopper though but it could be a serious PITA at times. I agree. > > On the other point, it should recycle the labels on partitions > > that are only reformatted not resized, since other installations > > on that disk will rely on those. Why should it rewrite the > > partition table when the partition aren't changed? > > Labels are not on partitions but on file systems so not resizing > is not relevant but reformatting is. If anaconda wrote labels > which collide with ones which already exist that would be really > the same bug as the above. A way to recover would be to boot > "rescue", without mounting any file systems, and to fix offending > labels from there. > > If you are indeed seeing such problem, and an idea is to skip label > checking in anaconda, then appending some random, long enough, > string to "usual" labels would make in practice such label > collisions highly unlikely. > > Michal -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
