Bug 504415 - USB based upgrades fail because USB drive file system is dirty
Summary: USB based upgrades fail because USB drive file system is dirty
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 11
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-06-06 14:43 UTC by Chris Ricker
Modified: 2009-06-09 19:17 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-06-09 19:17:28 UTC
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Description Chris Ricker 2009-06-06 14:43:51 UTC 
Doing a USB hard-drive upgrade of F10 to F11 on i386 (meaning boot from a USB flash drive with a copy of the ISO on it, tell it to do a hard drive based upgrade)

System drive is /dev/sda. USB flash drive is /dev/sdb1

Upgrade fails with this error:

"Dirty File Systems

The following file systems for your Linux system were not unmounted cleanly. Please boot your Linux installation,
let the file systems be checked and shut down cleanly to upgrade

/dev/sdb1

OK"


The filesystem dirty check should ignore the install media
Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2009-06-09 19:17:28 UTC 
We'd rather be safe than sorry here.  If your install media was not properly unmounted, you could end up with screwed up packages that could lead to serious installation problems.  This is a similar sort of check as media check for optical media - it doesn't detect all possible problems, but it stops a fairly obvious and easy to hit class of bugs.
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