Bug 465952 - Fedora 10-beta live installer ignores ext2 for / partition
Summary: Fedora 10-beta live installer ignores ext2 for / partition
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: LiveCD
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Jeremy Katz
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-10-07 12:21 UTC by Eelco Wesemann
Modified: 2013-01-10 04:50 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-10-07 14:41:36 UTC
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Description Eelco Wesemann 2008-10-07 12:21:45 UTC
Description of problem:
liveinst ignores custom filesystem setting of ext2 for root partition

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
9.91 livecd (fedora 10-beta)

How reproducible:
Every time, regardless of encryption or none.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start install
2. In partition interface change filesystem of / to ext2
3. Continue install

  
Actual results:
/ partition is ext3

Expected results:
/ partition is ext2

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2008-10-07 14:41:36 UTC
The live images are "installed" by copying over the actual filesystem image; since the live images are ext3, so is the root of the installed fs.  There's really not any way around this (doing a file-based copy is orders of magnitude slower to the point of being pretty infeasible)


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