Bug 1380767

Summary: [RFE] anaconda should support setting the default partitioning type as part of an installclass
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Ryan Barry <rbarry>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Vendula Poncova <vponcova>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation>
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Version: 7.4CC: cshao, dougsland, Frodox, jstodola, lmiksik, pkotvan, qiyuan, rbarry, rvykydal, sbueno, vponcova, ycui
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Last Closed: 2017-08-01 08:53:21 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Ryan Barry 2016-09-30 14:08:01 UTC 
Description of problem:
Right now, if an installclass which matches some product is used, autopartitioning can correctly set all values for the system.

However, if users select "Manual Partitioning", the values from the installclass (btrfs v LVM thin provisioning v regular LVM; xfs v ext4 v ...) are not used as defaults.

Instead, this values appear to be set by a constant, which is not customizable.

Expected results:

It should be possible to set some value in an installclass which changes these defaults if 'manual partitioning' is selected.
Comment 2 Vendula Poncova 2017-01-13 11:06:34 UTC 
Could you please attach a file with the custom installclass and provide some concrete examples of the expected versus actual behaviour, please?
Comment 3 Ryan Barry 2017-01-13 15:53:24 UTC 
https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/blob/rhel7-branch/pyanaconda/installclasses/rhv.py

You can see what we use "thin=true"

However, if you boot Anaconda in interactive mode and manual partitioning is selected, anaconda still defaults to regular, non-thin volumes.
Comment 4 Vit Ry 2017-01-30 22:51:58 UTC 
+1 for this feature
Comment 5 Vendula Poncova 2017-01-31 15:55:32 UTC 
Fix in a pull request: https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/pull/941
Comment 9 Peter Kotvan 2017-05-29 12:40:39 UTC 
Verified on RHEL-7.4-20170525.7 with anaconda-21.48.22.115-1.el7.

Thanks.
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-01 08:53:21 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2017:2293