Bug 107294
| Summary: | clearpart documentation misleading | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Rik Faith <faith> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
| Status: | CLOSED NEXTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | andriusb, katzj, smoore |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | EasyFix |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2005-02-03 20:07:51 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 123819 | ||
This comes from the kickstart docs in the SAG. The SAG doc needs to be fixed and then redumped to kickstart-docs.html and kickstart-docs.txt for the anaconda package. Reassigning to new owner. Sounds good... this will be updated in the SAG for the next release, which will be RHEL4. Unless the developer for anaconda disagrees! :-) Reassigning to developer who owns ananconda to update the man page. Bug suggestion reviewed and approved for addition into the RHEL4-SAG. Propogation to the /usr/share/doc/anaconda-*/kickstart-docs.html file may come later, during a future RHEL4 Update. Thanks for submitting the bug! :-) Andrius. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: The clearpart documentation in file:///usr/share/doc/anaconda-9.0.93/kickstart-docs.html is misleading. It states: For example, the following clears the partitions on the first two drives on the primary IDE controller: clearpart --drives hda,hdb This may have been true at one time, but now the default is CLEARPART_TYPE_NONE, so this will do nothing. I suggest you change this example to: clearpart --drives=hda,hdb --all or clearpart --drives=hda,hdb --linux (Note the = which makes the example consistent with the syntax used in the earlier part of the documentation.) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-9.0.93-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Kickstart on already partitioned drive with clearpart --drives=hda Actual Results: Error message (reproduced here: http://www.bohnsack.com/lists/archives/xcat-user/1457.html), because anaconda can't add more partitions, since none were removed. At this point, an fdisk -l will also show all the old paritions. This is not expected behavior based on the example in the documentation. Expected Results: Cleared partitions and successful kickstart. Additional info: Success is obtained with clearpart --drives=hda --all