On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 15:18 -0400, 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. > > This is rather awkard as the format checkbox is below the mount point box. You shouldn't get the warning until you click on 'OK', so I don't understand how this is awkward. Can you elaborate? > Are we going to recommend a seperate /home? Should the default layout make > a /home? We do default to creating a separate /home when doing automatic partitioning. > > 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 If you don't want to lose /home do not put it on the same device as /. /home is for user data, while / is for system data. Keep it separate for simplicity of management. > that the partition > ought to be formatted, unless there are home directories or something you > want to keep. > > FC13 has this notification, 15 lost it and now wants to force formatting. Installing on top of an old installation is too problematic to support. > > Two steps back and 1/2 step forward. It just seems that way because now you have to do some admin work you didn't do a long time ago. It's well worth the effort. David > > -- > test mailing list > test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
