Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 164119
Anaconda-disk druid- not correctly creating/formating swap partition if there is a boot partition
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:10 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050720 Fedora/1.0.6-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.6 Description of problem: I don't know what is correct... When clean installing -writing zeros to drive- FC4 and custom installing and custom partitioning if I have a 100mb boot partiton a root partition, a 1gb swap partition, and a 2.5 GB VFAT, i don't think swap partition is correctly formatted/partitioned. After installing (there are no errors) and using the windows hexidemal utility: WINHEX, the swap partition reads as a 2.3 gb fat32 partition. HOWEVER, if i do a clean install and don't have a boot partition ex: have a root, 1GB swap and 2.5GB VFAT, using Winhex, the Swap reads as 1GB linux-swap. I have also used the linux hex editor VCHE-virtual console hex editor to see that the swap is fat32 if I have a boot partition but swap isn't fat32 if I don't have a boot partition? Should swap be fat32 or should it be linux-swap? I have clean installed FC4 appx 6 times with and without a boot partition getting the same results above Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. clean install FC4 on usb drive 2. custom install/custom partitions w/ druid 3. make 100mb boot-sda1 75000 ext3-sda2 a 1gb swap-sda3 and 2.5gb VFAT-sda4 4. use a hex editor with disk editing features (such as widows- Winhex or linux VCHE) to see that swap- sda3 is actually formatted as fat32 Expected Results: as stated, should swap be fat32 or not 'linux-swap'? I would have to guess linux-swap. Additional info: I installed FC4 on a USB drive- and run FC4 of the USB drive
FC4 has now completely frozen on me 3 times since not using a boot partition. It freezes after starting- loading gnome panel and desktop. However, when I used a boot partition, FC4 never locked up.
It froze again so I did a clean install and tried something different: I again did a custom install w/ custom partitions but and my partitions are as follows: 50MB /boot 75000MB / 1GB Swap 2.5GB UNPARTITIONED usually I would partition the 2.5 as vfat but this time I didn't format/partition as a result I checked after installing to see if the swap was correctly partitioned/formatted and it was, it reads 1GB linux-swap In every install, I chose the 'force to be primary' on all partions So it looks like Anaconda/disk druid has a problem with creating 4 primary partitions- it does not correctly create swap.
Is this better in FC5?
Yes, so far have not experienced problems with Druid / Anaconda in FC5
This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd. Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and either update the target product or close it ? Thanks.
I'd say to close this. Sorry, thought it was already closed. I havn't noticed this issue since FC4.