Bug 15116 – anaconda wants to write unchanged partition tables to disk unnecessarily

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Bug 15116 - anaconda wants to write unchanged partition tables to disk unnecessarily

Summary:	anaconda wants to write unchanged partition tables to disk unnecessarily

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	anaconda (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Michael Fulbright
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Reported:	2000-08-02 09:24 EDT by Telsa Gwynne
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2000-08-17 12:17:51 EDT
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Description Telsa Gwynne 2000-08-02 09:24:15 EDT

Cyrix MediaGX with 32Mb of RAM and a very large
HD which I have partitioned to triple-boot between different
flavours of Linux.. 

Decided to install pinstripe over the top of the last beta
to replace it. Used disk druid, selected the partitions to
use for /boot and / - it already spotted the swap. I changed
nothing from its previous set up. hda3 was still /boot and
hda9 was still /. 

Next screen: "you have not much memory in your machine.
I want to turn on swap. "[Think bubble: 32Mbs? Fair enough...]
"To do that, I need to write the partition table to disk. Is that okay?"
[Think bubble: huh?]

Why? Why does it need to rewrite the partition table? It
hasn't changed...

I thought I had put this into bugzilla before but I can't
find it. Sorry.

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2000-08-17 12:17:47 EDT

It should not cause problems since the partition table is the same.

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