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Bug 74208 - kickstart: clearpart --linux clears all partitions
kickstart: clearpart --linux clears all partitions
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda (Show other bugs)
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i386 Linux
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Assigned To: Jeremy Katz
Brock Organ
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Reported: 2002-09-17 17:30 EDT by Joost van der Sluis
Modified: 2007-04-18 12:46 EDT (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-09-20 15:03:45 EDT
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Description Joost van der Sluis 2002-09-17 17:30:35 EDT 
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Description of problem:
A kickstart installations removes all partitions on /dev/hda while the option
'clearpart --linux' is in the kickstart-file

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. make a clean dos-partition table with fdisk and add a windows partition. (ie:
type b)
2. make a kickstart-file with the following:
clearpart --linux
part / --fstype ext3 --size 2048
part swap --size 256
3. after the installation the partition made in step 1 is dissapeared
	

Actual Results:  The windows-partition is removed

Expected Results:  All the linux-partitions cleared but not the windows-partition
Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2002-09-20 16:02:06 EDT 
clearpart looks at what is on the partition, not the partition table type as the
latter is completely non-deterministic.  You need to make sure to dd the
partition or mkdosfs it if you want to preserve it and it doesn't already really
have a non-linux filesystem
Comment 2 David Juran 2004-02-24 09:41:37 EST 
Seems this bug is back in RHEL 3 U1 and anaconda 9.1.1-7.RHEL. It just
wiped a NTFS partition for me. And yes, it really was an NTFS
partition. Please reopen this bug.
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