Bug 242020
Summary: | Install to hard drive from LiveCD formats the hard disk when it says it won't | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Phil Mayers <p.mayers> |
Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | low | ||
Version: | 7 | CC: | dougm |
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Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2007-09-10 14:55:17 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Bug Blocks: | 235703 |
Description
Phil Mayers
2007-06-01 10:46:25 UTC
The way the live install works, there's no way to avoid a "format"; we do a direct copy of the filesystem used for the live image to the hard drive and then resize accordingly. I'll try to make some adjustments so this is clearer in F8 This should be clearer as of Fedora 8, test2 I was testing Fedora 15 Live CD, because I wanted to do the same thing as Phil did on a live system (in my case, to convert an Ubuntu desktop to Fedora). Before running the Install to Disk, I opened a shell, mounted an existing blank non-LVM ext4 file system, and created some test files on it. I unmounted it. I used the Custom feature of Install to indicate which file system to use for root and NOT format. After running the Install, the root fs was re-formatted and the test files were gone (for the reason given by Jeremy). There is no indication in the UI or doc that the root file system will be always be formatted and all existing data last. It's even more surprising that it happens considering all the warnings in the UI and doc about losing data in every other case where a fs format is requested/required. So for LiveCD, the root fs should not have an option to format -- instead, it should have a warning that it will be formatted. Other than that, I'm liking F15! |