Bug 489991 - Support disks without partitions
Summary: Support disks without partitions
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 12
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Lehman
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard: anaconda_trace_hash:a240156f9b2432698...
: 490641 496535 513235 531880 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-03-12 19:31 UTC by James Laska
Modified: 2013-09-02 06:32 UTC (History)
12 users (show)

Fixed In Version: anaconda-13.10-1
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2010-12-05 06:59:25 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:


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Attached traceback automatically from anaconda. (8.79 MB, text/plain)
2009-03-12 19:31 UTC, James Laska
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Description James Laska 2009-03-12 19:31:32 UTC
The following was filed automatically by anaconda:
anaconda 11.5.0.28 exception report
Traceback (most recent call first):
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/formats/fs.py", line 428, in mount
    raise FSError("no mountpoint given")
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/formats/fs.py", line 656, in setup
    return self.mount(**kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/devices.py", line 511, in setup
    parent.format.setup()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/devices.py", line 1026, in create
    self.setup()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/deviceaction.py", line 205, in execute
    self.device.create(intf=intf)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/devicetree.py", line 618, in processActions
    action.execute(intf=self.intf)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/__init__.py", line 181, in doIt
    self.devicetree.processActions()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 115, in turnOnFilesystems
    anaconda.id.storage.doIt()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 205, in moveStep
    rc = stepFunc(self.anaconda)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 128, in gotoNext
    self.moveStep()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1317, in nextClicked
    self.anaconda.dispatch.gotoNext()
FSError: no mountpoint given

Comment 1 James Laska 2009-03-12 19:31:53 UTC
Created attachment 335003 [details]
Attached traceback automatically from anaconda.

Comment 2 David Lehman 2009-03-12 19:49:40 UTC
Since we don't currently allow unpartitioned disks to contain formatting other than a disklabel we need to ignore things like filesystems detected on them.

That's what is happening here -- your preexisting btrfs on the disk is recognized, but we don't know to destroy the formatting when writing the disklabel.

Comment 3 Chris Lumens 2009-03-26 19:30:51 UTC
*** Bug 490641 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Joel Andres Granados 2009-04-15 10:00:55 UTC
mmm, but if the disk only had a filesyste on it and no partitions there should have been a question asking if to ignore or to reinitialize the disk with a partition.  Maybe this happens when both filesystem metadata and partition metadata are detected on the disk (its happened to me more than once).

Comment 5 Chris Lumens 2009-04-20 14:45:45 UTC
*** Bug 496535 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 12:11:29 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 7 Chris Lumens 2009-08-12 14:20:59 UTC
*** Bug 513235 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 David Lehman 2009-10-29 18:47:51 UTC
*** Bug 531880 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Bug Zapper 2009-11-16 09:51:45 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
Changing version to '12'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 10 David Lehman 2010-01-18 16:03:44 UTC
Support for preexisting whole-disk formatting was added to anaconda-13.10-1, which will be in Fedora 13.

Reformatting and setting a mountpoint are not supported, but the formatting will be recognized. In the case of lvm physical volumes and software (md) raid member devices, the devices can be used in new or existing configurations.

Comment 11 Bug Zapper 2010-11-04 11:26:56 UTC
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Comment 12 Bug Zapper 2010-12-05 06:59:25 UTC
Fedora 12 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-12-02. Fedora 12 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
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