Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 64160
'clearpart --initlabel --drives sda' removes partitions on ALL drives
Last modified: 2005-10-31 17:00:50 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020313 Description of problem: The 'clearpart --initlabel --drives sda' command in the kickstart file (see additional information) clears the paritions on /dev/sdb as well as /dev/sda. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. do a kickstart install using the attached kickstart file 2. 3. Actual Results: Parition table on /dev/sdb is gone. Expected Results: Partition table on /dev/sdb shouldn't get touched. Additional info: # L A N G U A G E S P E C I F I C A T I O N (Required for upgrade) lang en_US langsupport --default en_US en_US # N E T W O R K C O N F I G U R A T I O N network --bootproto dhcp # I N S T A L L A T I O N M E T H O D (Required for upgrade) nfs --server kitchenaid-g0 --dir /vol/vol2/home/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/7.2/en/os/i386 # D E V I C E S P E C I F I C A T I O N (Required for upgrade) #N/A # K E Y M A P S P E C I F I C A T I O N (Required for upgrade) keyboard us # D E V I C E C O N T R O L L E R S - N O P R O B E #noprobe #N/A # D E V I C E C O N T R O L L E R S - --C O N T I N U E #device --continue #N/A # P A R T I T I O N S P E C I F I C A T I O N zerombr yes clearpart --initlabel --drives sda part swap --size 2047 --badblocks --ondisk hda part /boot --size 32 --badblocks --ondisk hda --fstype ext2 part / --size 4098 --badblocks --ondisk hda --fstype ext2 part /data0 --size 1 --grow --badblocks --ondisk hda --fstype ext2 # I N S T A L L / U P G R A D E S P E C I F I C A T I O N (Required for upgrade) install # M O U S E S P E C I F I C A T I O N mouse generic3ps/2 # T I M E Z O N E S P E C I F I C A T I O N timezone --utc US/Mountain # X W I N D O W S Y S T E M S P E C I F I C A T I O N xconfig --startxonboot text # R O O T P A S S W O R D rootpw --iscrypted <omitted> # A U T H E N T I C A T I O N C O N F I G U R A T I O N auth --enablenis --nisdomain <omitted> # B O O T L O A D E R C O N F I G U R A T I O N (Required for upgrade) bootloader --md5pass=<omitted> # P A C K A G E S P E C I F I C A T I O N %packages @ Everything # P O S T - I N S T A L L A T I O N C O M M A N D S %post
This is because initlabel wasn't ever really made to work with the drives feature as drives came second.
Fixed in CVS
Jeremy, I did a bit of testing with this today (re0903.2) and both drives had their partition tables cleared even though the kickstart file said to only clear the partition table on sda.
Oops, I drilled all of the support into the lower levels of the code and then forgot to commit the change to the caller to take advantage of it. Fixed in CVS
Time tracking values updated
fix verified in Phoebe public beta 2
Reopened because the bug is still there on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 Update 3. As a workaround, you can create a %pre script using fdisk to achieve the same effect of --initlabel. clearpart --drives=sda --all works as intended. Here's a sample %pre script: %pre mkdir /tmp/pre mknod /tmp/pre/hdb b 3 64 fdisk /tmp/pre/hdb <<_EOF_ o w _EOF_ rm /tmp/pre/hdb rmdir /tmp/pre