Hello, Wu. Thanks for your help. Can you please file a new bugzilla and attach your patch, please? Much obliged, -Jim On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 16:37 +0800, wu jessinay wrote: > Hi,all > I have encountered several bugs of system-config-lvm. > The first one is if there is a logical volume entry in /etc/fstab > and another raw device entry for swap > such as > /dev/my_vg1/my_lv1 swap swap defaults 0 0 > /dev/hda1 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > then if we use system-config-lvm to remove my_lv1, > Not only the my_lv1 entry,but all other swap entries in /etc/fstab > will get removed. > > After some investigation on the system-config-lvm python source file. > It seems that the problem is in the InputController.py file. > When we click the remove button,the program will check if there is any > entry of the removed logical volume in /etc/fstab. > If any entry exist in /etc/fstab, it will remove this line > from /etc/fstab so that when the system reboot it won't mount this > logical volume(since it has been removed). > > This procedure is OK.However,the program will delete the corresponding > entry in the following way: > 1.check what is the mount point of this logical volume.(in our case it > is swap) > 2.search /etc/fstab file,delete all the entries with the same mount > point.This won't result in any trouble if the logical volume is > mounted on /mnt/mylv1 .but if the mount point is swap ,it will delete > all swap entries in /etc/fstab file. > > I have created a patch to solve this problem,which modify the removing > procedure if the mount point is swap. > > There is several other bugs with system-config-lvm but the root cause > should be the same. > > this problem exist in enterprise linux 5 and enterprise linux 5 U1. > Is this a fixed bug?Any advice is appreciated! > > Thanks > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
