Bug 2326476

Summary: No Reinstall Fedora option if the system was manually partitioned
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Alessio <alciregi>
Component: anaconda-webuiAssignee: Katerina Koukiou <kkoukiou>
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Version: 42CC: jkonecny, kkoukiou, mkolman, rvykydal
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Description Alessio 2024-11-15 14:20:22 UTC 
I partitioned the disk using storage editor.

Created 4 partitions
sda1 EFI
sda2 ext4 /boot
sda3 ext4 /
sda4 /home

Ok. Installation successful. Reboot. GNOME initial setup.

Then, just to test the installation preserving the home, I booted again the live iso, but when Anaconda starts, the option "Reinstall Fedora" (preserving home) doesn't appear.

The same behavior happens if the disk was partitioned with LVM.
So far, "Reinstall Fedeora" appeared only when I performed the installation using the entire disk and without using the storage editor.




Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Alessio 2024-11-15 14:48:24 UTC 
Created attachment 2057889 [details]
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Comment 2 Alessio 2024-11-15 14:48:45 UTC 
Created attachment 2057890 [details]
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Comment 3 Alessio 2024-11-15 14:49:09 UTC 
Created attachment 2057891 [details]
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Comment 4 Alessio 2024-11-15 14:49:30 UTC 
Created attachment 2057892 [details]
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Comment 5 Alessio 2024-11-15 14:49:49 UTC 
Created attachment 2057893 [details]
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Comment 6 Aoife Moloney 2025-02-26 13:16:37 UTC 
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 42 development cycle.
Changing version to 42.
Comment 7 Radek Vykydal 2025-03-20 13:21:09 UTC 
(In reply to Alessio from comment #0)
 
> The same behavior happens if the disk was partitioned with LVM.
> So far, "Reinstall Fedeora" appeared only when I performed the installation
> using the entire disk and without using the storage editor.

This is expected for Fedora 42.

At this point, when introducing the Reinstall feature, we want to stay on the safer side and focus on default autopartitioning use case - which is using btrfs filesystem storage layout.

If/when we allow to select (or at least support) automatic partitioning schemes other than btrfs (plain partitions, lvm, basically what is supported by --type option of autopart kickstart command:  https://pykickstart.readthedocs.io/en/latest/kickstart-docs.html#id83) it should be possible also to Reinstall such layouts. The backend is already prepared for it, we would mostly need to work on detection of autopartitioning schemes usable for the existing layout and their proper support.
We could also consider to allow Reinstall of automatic partitioning schemes created by kickstart installations or Gtk UI.