Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 224204
unecessary formatting when using dd backend
Last modified: 2008-08-02 19:40:36 EDT
anaconda formats the filesystems even when using it to install a live cd image. Since the image is just dd'ed onto the disk, that shouldn't be necessary, I think.
We might want to do any metadata clobbering, though, just to avoid tools getting confused later
There's not really a good way to handle this cleanly at present. We're planning to overhaul partitioning a bit for Fedora 8, so I think the best thing to do is to punt this for Fedora 7. The only real impact is that the install takes longer due to the need to format.
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