Bug 613135
Summary: | reduced functionality | ||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | mike simpson <mikie.simpson> |
Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation> |
Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | low | ||
Version: | 6.0 | ||
Target Milestone: | rc | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2010-07-09 20:29:13 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
mike simpson
2010-07-09 19:38:12 UTC
Unfortunately, in this particular case, Fedora will offer more partitioning flexibility than RHEL simply because RHEL is shipping without NTFS support. When installing RHEL, you will need to make sure there is some unpartitioned space on the target disk in order for the auto partitioning to work, otherwise you will have to go with manual partitioning. Thank you for youe reply. Not quite sure why not having ntfs support should make any difference in being able to properly edit the partition table at that stage in anaconda. Are you really saying that RHEL has to be able to read the data *inside* the partitions in order to be able to delete them as part of a "choose an area of the disc to install RHEL6 on" auto install? I would have thought that NTFS support wouldn't have any impact on RHEL's ability to interact with the partition table. Please explain? mike We don't read the data inside the partition, but to accurately detect it as NTFS, we need ntfsprogs. ntfsprogs is not part of RHEL, unfortunately. Specifically, we need the ntfsinfo command and ntfsresize to implement the functionality you were describing. It's down to a policy decision rather than a technical decision. Without the tools, we [anaconda] cannot offer the functionality you describe. Red Hat has made the decision to not ship ntfsprogs as part of RHEL, therefore anaconda will have NTFS support disabled. That makes sense. Thank you for taking the time explaining it to me. mike |