On 03/16/2011 01:18 PM, Gregory Woodbury wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Tim Flink <tflink@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 03/16/2011 11:36 AM, Gregory Woodbury wrote: >>> No traceback or messages that I can see, just a notification that i can't >>> put >>> a partition on root. >> >> Just to re-iterate (and slightly rephrase) what James said: I believe >> that the change to anaconda was to disallow assigning '/' to a partition >> that was not being formatted during the installation process. If the >> partition was previously formatted, you wouldn't be able to mount it as >> '/' unless you reformat it as part of the install. >> >> Are you using custom or auto partitioning? >> >> Are you using pre-existing partitions/logical volumes? If so, does >> deleting and re-creating those partitions work (assuming you can do so)? >> > > Yes, it is wanting the partition formatted before letting it be assigned to > root. I assume this means that you did not see the aforementioned error after checking the format box on the partition that will become '/'. Can you confirm this? I have not seen that error message myself but if you don't think that it was clearly worded enough (and it kind of sounds that way), please file a bug against anaconda. > This is rather awkard as the format checkbox is below the mount point box. > Are we going to recommend a seperate /home? Should the default layout make > a /home? I thought that the default layout did create a separate home lv but I could very well be wrong here. I'm not sure what the LiveCD installer does off the top of my head, though. > This is, IIRC the second go around on forcing the root to be formatted. > What if /home is > in the root and you don't want to lose it! Last time we got a notification > that the partition > ought to be formatted, unless there are home directories or something you > want to keep. I honestly can't think of anything other than backing up those partitions before formatting on re-install. Does anyone else have suggestions? > FC13 has this notification, 15 lost it and now wants to force formatting. > > Two steps back and 1/2 step forward. The change is from a fix for a couple of bugs: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=629311 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525849 I am not aware of the exact technical reasons on why allowing '/' to be unformatted is a bad idea, though. Thanks, Tim
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