Bug 61416

Summary:	clearpart --drives didn't work
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Mitsuo Hamada <pa-hama>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Mitsuo Hamada 2002-03-19 11:35:53 UTC

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Description of problem:
clearpart --drives hda couldn't clear partitions on hda.

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Whenever I use kickstart mode and use clearpart --drives.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2002-03-19 16:48:48 UTC

What happens when you try to use it?

Comment 2 Mitsuo Hamada 2002-03-20 01:54:04 UTC

Because all partitions on hda still remain, anaconda cannot make / partition 
on hda.

Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2002-03-28 22:46:55 UTC

Oh, sorry... I was being brain dead the first time I replied.

You also need to specify what is being removed, ie 'clearpart --all
--drives=hda' to remove all partitions from hda.  Otherwise, it still defaults
to not removing any types of partitions.

Comment 4 Mitsuo Hamada 2002-04-01 08:15:16 UTC

'clearpart --all --drives sda' delete all partitions on both sda and sdb
and stopped at 'part /backup --size 4096 --onpart sdb1 --noformat --grow'.
How can I delete all partitions on hda and reallocate sdb1?

Comment 5 Jeremy Katz 2002-04-04 22:31:49 UTC

This works for me here... my kickstart config looks like the following

lang en_US
langsupport --default=en_US
network --bootproto dhcp
nfs --server host --dir location
keyboard us
clearpart --all --drives=hda
part / --size 1500
part swap --recommended
part /home --noformat --onpart hdb2
install
mouse generic3ps/2
timezone US/Eastern
skipx
rootpw changeme
auth --useshadow --enablemd5
firewall --medium --ssh --dhcp
bootloader
%packages
@Base

Comment 6 Mitsuo Hamada 2002-04-11 01:36:54 UTC

OK! I will try it again.

Comment 7 Mitsuo Hamada 2002-04-12 01:26:14 UTC

I tried it.  Ananconda stopped with error which told me that
part command requires --size option.
Did your sample really work well?
Which version of anaconda did you use?