Bug 635822
| Summary: | When using preexisting filesystems without reformatting and without enough free space, livecd install fails. surprise. | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Max Korn <makorasm> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 14 | CC: | anaconda-maint-list, jedh, j.hoffmann, jonathan, makorasm, meyering, vanmeeuwen+fedora |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | anaconda_trace_hash:6276c1ce1a1405535b15825c1d2c1119d92c1b3a5f6365e84a7e18d5d3a1f723 | ||
| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2011-03-14 20:34:19 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Created attachment 448537 [details]
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What partitioning selections did you make? In particular, how big did you make /? Did you get a warning about not enough space? Created attachment 459531 [details]
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(In reply to comment #2) > Created attachment 448538 [details] > Attached traceback automatically from anaconda. You chose not to reformat /usr (sde1), which doesn't have enough space for the livecd's /usr contents. You were warned and chose to proceed anyway. (In reply to comment #4) > Created attachment 459531 [details] > Attached traceback automatically from anaconda. You chose to use your preexisting /var (sda14) without reformatting the filesystem, which did not have enough free space to hold the contents of the livecd's /var directory. You were warned, but you chose to proceed anyway. (In reply to comment #7) > (In reply to comment #4) > > Created attachment 459531 [details] > > Attached traceback automatically from anaconda. > > You chose to use your preexisting /var (sda14) without reformatting the > filesystem, which did not have enough free space to hold the contents of the > livecd's /var directory. You were warned, but you chose to proceed anyway. Hi David, No problem closing this, but I don't recall overriding a warning from anaconda that my preexisting /var partitions contents were an issue (and that there was a space shortage). Your comment #7 above is the first time I understood that existing contents would *not* be clobbered by the installation. Of course, it makes sense, once you know the rule (i.e., if you don't want this, be sure to check the "format" box). (In reply to comment #8) > (In reply to comment #7) > > (In reply to comment #4) ... > No problem closing this, but I don't recall overriding a warning from anaconda > that my preexisting /var partitions contents were an issue (and that there was It may be that we don't even warn about not reformatting /var since it has historically been one of the filesystem that is more likely to not get reformatted (think about people wanting to keep their /var/www/ intact). It is also true that, while we do an overall space check before beginning the transfer of the live image to disk, we do not check each mountpoint's device to ensure that it can hold it's share of the livecd's contents. Created attachment 603672 [details]
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