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Bug 498856

Summary: The "part" keyword in the kickstart file accepts an option named "--label" is ignored ?
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Srinivas Satyavarpu <srs>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Dave Cantrell <dcantrell>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Alexander Todorov <atodorov>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 5.3CC: atodorov, borgan, ddumas, pyaduvan, riek, tao, wmealing
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: anaconda-11.1.2.196-1 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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pass the label for existing devices. none

Description Srinivas Satyavarpu 2009-05-04 03:56:24 UTC 
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The "part" keyword in the kickstart file accepts an option named  "--label".  Its purpose is to be able to provide a label to apply to the  file system that is created on the partition (see the -L option of  tune2fs).  Unfortunately, the when one specifies a label using the  "--label" option, that label is not actually applied to the file system.
It appears as if the "--label" option (and its associated argument) is  silently ignored.  My expectation is that anaconda should apply the label (my first preference) or it should produce a parsing error sayin that "--label" is an unknown/unsupported option rather than just ignoring the option.
Comment 5 Wade Mealing 2009-06-30 12:41:57 UTC 
Created attachment 349946 [details]
pass the label for existing devices.
Comment 6 Wade Mealing 2009-07-01 03:20:26 UTC 
Posted to anaconda devel, got ack for 5.5
Comment 7 RHEL Program Management 2009-09-25 17:44:08 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.
Comment 10 Alexander Todorov 2009-12-14 15:20:32 UTC 
Hi folks,
this looks like it's been fixed in RHEL5.4 My automated test case uses the following ks.cfg partitioning:

clearpart --all --initlabel 
part /boot --asprimary --fstype="ext3" --size=200 --bytes-per-inode=4096 --label=BOOT
part swap --fstype="swap" --recommended --bytes-per-inode=4096 --label=SWAP
part / --fstype="ext3" --grow --size=2048 --bytes-per-inode=4096 --label=ROOTPART

The result for the root partition is:
# tune2fs -l /dev/sdb1
Filesystem volume name:   ROOTPART
... skip ...

/etc/fstab has
LABEL=ROOTPART          /                       ext3    defaults        1 1

and blkid reports:
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="ROOTPART" UUID="9b48a783-858d-4bf1-88f9-e15842319c04" TYPE="ext3" 

What has been fixed exactly?
Comment 12 Alexander Todorov 2010-02-02 11:56:20 UTC 
This works in the current release. See comment #10 and comment #11.
Comment 13 Alexander Todorov 2010-02-02 12:19:12 UTC 
this is the related commit:
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/anaconda.git?p=anaconda.git;a=commitdiff;h=8a025c370f7dbbbc96b3985a64bac8361348045a;hp=480707922b448e691e995659684e34c318c23b4f