Bug 785030

Summary:	LiveUSB Creator forces the file system label to "LIVE" - unwanted behaviour
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jared D <wwjdbugz>
Component:	liveusb-creator	Assignee:	Luke Macken <lmacken>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	16	CC:	bcl, lmacken, pfrields
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Description Jared D 2012-01-27 01:26:09 UTC

Description of problem:
Since about Fedora 12 I've used LiveUSB Creator to install a live OS onto multiple USB flash drives.  Each flash drive has it's own custom file system label which is used by scripts within the live OS, and for easy identification of the device.

The change of LiveUSB-Creator's behaviour in version 3.11.6 to force the label to "LIVE" obviously means the file system labels get overwritten.  The overwritten label has caused my scripts within the installed live OS to stop working correctly.

I tried setting the label back after LiveUSB Creator had finished installing the live OS, but that stops the persistent overlay from working which is unusable.  In the short term I'm using an older version of LiveUSB Creator until this issue can be resolved.

The change in LiveUSB Creator to force the label to "LIVE" must have been done for a good reason (I don't know what it is), so I guess the change won't be reverted.  In that case would it be possible to bring back the original behaviour (of preserving non-empty file system labels) via a command line option?


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
liveusb-creator-3.11.6-1.fc16

Comment 1 Brian Lane 2012-01-27 03:38:23 UTC

Anaconda needs the LIVE label in order to be able to detect the install media so that it doesn't use it as an install target. If it isn't labeled as LIVE you can end up with the bootloader written to the USB stick instead of the harddrive.