Bug 503457
| Summary: | New swap partitions are type 83 | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Allen Kistler <ackistler> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Joel Andres Granados <jgranado> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 11 | CC: | jgranado, jlaska, rmaximo, vanmeeuwen+fedora |
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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: | 2010-06-28 12:46:38 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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Description
Allen Kistler
2009-06-01 06:55:39 UTC
I don't think parted has a way to set the partition type, but I could be wrong. It should have one if it doesn't, anyway. We by and large don't use types anymore, but a mismatched type could cause problems in programs that do rely on them. Are you noticing an actual problem with your installation, and if so, with what? Confirmed the change in behavior from F10 to F11. = F10 = # cat /proc/swaps /dev/vda5 partition 2096440 0 -2 # fdisk -l /dev/vda | grep vda5 /dev/vda5 808 1068 2096451 82 Linux swap / Solaris = F11 = # cat /proc/swaps /dev/sda5 partition 2031608 0 -2 # fdisk -l /dev/sda | grep sda5 /dev/sda5 810 1062 2031616 83 Linux Re: Comment 1 Installations of F11 appear to be working okay with the different (I'd still say incorrect) partition type. I've been testing F11 since the alpha medium was released, so I'd have noticed before now if things were very broken. The workaround is to run fdisk and change the type manually. As far as you say you (qualifiers?) don't use types any more, do you just mean swap types? What about the RAID autostart type? The LVM type? You've made me want to do a fresh install and check the others now, too. Is there any expectation that using different types might break things in the future? Since you say you don't use them, I'd expect not. Since I only use RHEL and Fedora, I wouldn't expect any cross-distro problems. Would Debian/Slackware/etc. multi-booters have an issue, though? (That question is mostly, if not entirely, rhetorical on my part.) RAID and LVM are still typed as RAID and LVM. (... and the sky is still blue ...) Just checking ... Parted _does_ have a way to set the swap flag. And it is reachable through the libparted, so this is not really parted. The real question here is. What should be setting the flag, mkswap or anaconda? Note that anaconda uses mkswap to create the swap format. It may provide a way to set the swap flag, but more generally I don't believe there's a way to set the partition's type (what fdisk reports and lists when you use the L command). (In reply to comment #6) > It may provide a way to set the swap flag, but more generally I don't believe > there's a way to set the partition's type (what fdisk reports and lists when > you use the L command). Setting the swap flag makes parted set the partition type with msdos partitions (and noops on other types). And Joel just sent such a patch This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping This message is a reminder that Fedora 11 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 11. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '11'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 11's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 11 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora please change the 'version' of this bug to the applicable version. If you are unable to change the version, please add a comment here and someone will do it for you. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping Fedora 11 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-06-25. Fedora 11 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |