Bug 2347152 - not obvious existing partition will not be reformatted
Summary: not obvious existing partition will not be reformatted
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Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda-webui
Version: 43
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
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Assignee: Katerina Koukiou
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Blocks: AnacondaWebUITracker
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2025-02-23 01:05 UTC by Chris Murphy
Modified: 2025-11-30 20:01 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Attachments (Terms of Use)
screenshot (81.32 KB, image/png)
2025-02-23 01:05 UTC, Chris Murphy
no flags Details
storage.log (247.15 KB, text/plain)
2025-02-23 01:05 UTC, Chris Murphy
no flags Details
storage.state (20.00 KB, application/x-sqlite3)
2025-02-23 01:05 UTC, Chris Murphy
no flags Details
program.log (2.25 KB, text/plain)
2025-02-23 01:06 UTC, Chris Murphy
no flags Details
anaconda.log (8.49 KB, text/plain)
2025-02-23 01:06 UTC, Chris Murphy
no flags Details

Description Chris Murphy 2025-02-23 01:05:06 UTC
The installer shows a proposed partition layout following installation. It says sda1 "format as efi" but it's ambiguous whether this partition will be reformatted efi and thus leading to data loss on the partition or if the installer intends to use it as is, and share the space, touching nothing else.

Reproducible: Always

Used Fedora-Workstation-Live-42-20250215.n.0.x86_64.iso which contains anaconda 42.24-1.fc42

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Existing OS is present including an EFI System partition (ESP)
2. Choose "share disk with other operating system" option
3. Review and install page shows sda1 "format as efi" using the same verbiage as partitions that will be formatted, suggesting sda1 will be reformatted.
Actual Results:  
The language used in the review and install page is ambiguous.

The sda1 partition is not reformatted.

Expected Results:  
The language should be unambiguous, sda1 will not be reformatted.

The sda1 partition is not reformatted.

Comment 1 Chris Murphy 2025-02-23 01:05:33 UTC
Created attachment 2077439 [details]
screenshot

Comment 2 Chris Murphy 2025-02-23 01:05:47 UTC
Created attachment 2077440 [details]
storage.log

Comment 3 Chris Murphy 2025-02-23 01:05:57 UTC
Created attachment 2077441 [details]
storage.state

Comment 4 Chris Murphy 2025-02-23 01:06:29 UTC
Created attachment 2077442 [details]
program.log

Comment 5 Chris Murphy 2025-02-23 01:06:44 UTC
Created attachment 2077443 [details]
anaconda.log

Comment 6 Mads Kiilerich 2025-11-30 20:01:17 UTC
Just experienced this when installing f43. It makes Fedora look bad. Any sane user would give up trying install a dual boot system.

The UI seems to be so user friendly now that there is no way to control manually what partitions to create and format.


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