Bug 680377 - anaconda removes every single partition when specifying 'clearpart --all...'
Summary: anaconda removes every single partition when specifying 'clearpart --all...'
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: anaconda
Version: 5.3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: rc
: 5.7
Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Release Test Team
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-02-25 10:49 UTC by Raul Mahiques
Modified: 2011-02-25 15:01 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-02-25 15:01:44 UTC
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Description Raul Mahiques 2011-02-25 10:49:30 UTC 
Description of problem:
Anaconda remove partitons and LVs one by one when you specify the option:
clearpart --all ...
this is inieficient and sometimes slows the kickstart process


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Noticed in RHEL5.3, probably others.

How reproducible:
Create some LVs in a disk.
kickstart the machine including 'clearpart --all ...'
Observe tty3 output

Actual results:
Anaconda deletes partitons and LVs one by one

Expected results:
Anaconda cleans the disk quickly (ie. using dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/diskdevice bs=1M count=1 )
Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2011-02-25 15:01:44 UTC 
While it'd be nice to make this faster, RHEL5 is at a point where we're really only making changes that fix bugs affecting installability and hardware support.
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