Bug 74208

Summary:	kickstart: clearpart --linux clears all partitions
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Public Beta	Reporter:	Joost van der Sluis <joost.sluis>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Joost van der Sluis 2002-09-17 21:30:35 UTC

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Description of problem:
A kickstart installations removes all partitions on /dev/hda while the option
'clearpart --linux' is in the kickstart-file

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. make a clean dos-partition table with fdisk and add a windows partition. (ie:
type b)
2. make a kickstart-file with the following:
clearpart --linux
part / --fstype ext3 --size 2048
part swap --size 256
3. after the installation the partition made in step 1 is dissapeared
	

Actual Results:  The windows-partition is removed

Expected Results:  All the linux-partitions cleared but not the windows-partition

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2002-09-20 20:02:06 UTC

clearpart looks at what is on the partition, not the partition table type as the
latter is completely non-deterministic.  You need to make sure to dd the
partition or mkdosfs it if you want to preserve it and it doesn't already really
have a non-linux filesystem

Comment 2 David Juran 2004-02-24 14:41:37 UTC

Seems this bug is back in RHEL 3 U1 and anaconda 9.1.1-7.RHEL. It just
wiped a NTFS partition for me. And yes, it really was an NTFS
partition. Please reopen this bug.