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Bug 593442 - clone a disk always says "there are partitions that are not restricted to one device"
Summary: clone a disk always says "there are partitions that are not restricted to one...
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 587036
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: rawhide
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: 2010-05-18 19:05 UTC by Hank
Modified: 2010-05-18 19:32 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2010-05-18 19:11:38 UTC
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Description Hank 2010-05-18 19:05:43 UTC 
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
Comment 1 Hans de Goede 2010-05-18 19:11:38 UTC 
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 ***
Comment 2 Hank 2010-05-18 19:32:55 UTC 
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.
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