Bug 523268

Summary:	anaconda kickstart removing NTFS partitions
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Murray Anderegg <anderegg>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation>
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Description Murray Anderegg 2009-09-14 16:46:45 UTC

Description of problem:

anaconda clearpart --linux is removing non-linux partitions from selected drive.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

RHEL 5.4 


How reproducible:

This has happened repeatedly on systems with an NTFS/HPFS (type 7) partition both with and without actual NTFS filesystems.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Clear partitions on drive hda.
2. Create one primary partition in partition 1 of type 7 on drive hda.
3. Kickstart and include the following directives:

zerombr
clearpart --linux --initlabel --drives=hda

Actual results:
Partition 1 is removed and disk is partitioned according to requested partitioning scheme.


Expected results:
Partition 1 should have been left intact and the Linux partitions should have been in later partitions on drive hda.

Additional info:
This occurred on both i386 and x86_64 systems.
This occurred on drives with one Windows partition of type 7 and two Windows partitions of type 7.

Enclosed find /tmp/part-include

Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2009-09-14 17:15:21 UTC

According to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart, clearpart --initlabel creates a new disklabel on the drives specified.  This is why you are losing the non-linux partitions.