Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 593442
clone a disk always says "there are partitions that are not restricted to one device"
Last modified: 2010-05-18 15:32:55 EDT
Description of problem: During install with multiple drives, if you create a list of partitions and allocate them to one drive (by only checking one box in the disk list) you can never clone that drive because the system always says: "there are partitions that are not restricted to one device" using supermicro servers different models past few versions of Fedora Graphical installer Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 12/13beta How reproducible: Always http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IonWCKOzZwk#t=1m30s Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have 2 or more drives new/blank to use during install 2. Judiciously make 8 or 9 partitions as softRAID and be sure to check the box for only one drive!! 3. Use the clone a drive RAID function ... This seems to happen with ext3, ext4 and jfs partitions, the system loses track of which drive I have selected whenever I want to clone a drive. Actual results: "there are partitions that are not restricted to one device" Expected results: Wow, you did alot of work allocating all those softRAID partitions and carefully marking them to only use drive a, so I will clone that drive for you to save you further work. Oh, wait, you want to create a spare drive too? OK, I'll clone that one for you, too, really it's no problem, I have the partition listing right here... Additional info: been this way for a couple releases, AFAIK and thank you for your support http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3LkWVqYecE&feature=related#t=27s
This is "fixed" for F-14, but I'm afraid the fix is not going to make you happy, see the bug this is a duplicate of. I think the answer for your problems is to use kickstart for advanced setups like these. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 587036 ***
Well, thanks for the instant update - for me, I don't use LVM and on servers I like to keep separate file systems for /usr /var /var/lib/mysql/data /var/lib/mysqllogs /var/lib/mysqldumps, etc. That way if there is filesystem corruption, it can often be limited to a smaller number of files, etc. So I will just go ahead and create all the partitions manually from now on - or use kickstart. Thanks.