Bug 174598 - dangerous default will wipe out user data
Summary: dangerous default will wipe out user data
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 5
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-11-30 16:59 UTC by Alexandre Oliva
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-12-01 03:32:34 UTC
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Description Alexandre Oliva 2005-11-30 16:59:28 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051118 Fedora/1.5-0.5.0.rc3 Firefox/1.5

Description of problem:
The default disk layout selection is to clear all linux filesystems, which places users' data at risk.  I believe we'd be better off with a safer default.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start an interactive install

Actual Results:  The default is to clear all linux partitions

Expected Results:  It should preserve data by default

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2005-12-01 03:32:34 UTC 
Not doing this ends up causing almost all people to not be able to use
autopartitioning.  This is the way things have worked forever
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