Bug 867558 - add new mount point dialog offers /usr as option (and should not)
Summary: add new mount point dialog offers /usr as option (and should not)
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 18
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Cantrell
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-10-17 18:03 UTC by Matthew Miller
Modified: 2013-01-10 02:24 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-10-18 03:41:31 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Matthew Miller 2012-10-17 18:03:12 UTC
I'm using the F18 TC4 version of anaconda. When creating a custom partitioning scheme, I noticed that in the ADD A NEW MOUNT POINT (why the shouting, by the way?) dialog, the drop-down prefilled options are /usr and /var. But, as of http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove, we don't support /usr as a separate partition, so we should not offer that.

In fact, we should maybe find some way of telling people that this would break?

As a separate but related note, maybe we should provide options for common separate partitions /opt and /srv?

Comment 1 Jesse Keating 2012-10-17 21:55:01 UTC
I've sent a patch for not offering /usr (replaced it with /srv).

As for preventing somebody from creating a /usr/ mount that'd be a different bug (but I'm going to glance at seeing if this is a quick fix or already done).

Comment 2 Jesse Keating 2012-10-18 03:41:31 UTC
So, actually, reading that feature, /usr could be a separate filesystem.  In fact, offering /usr was added because of bug 815264

So if /usr as a mount point doesn't work, that should get filed as it's own bug and made to work.  I'm going to close this as NOTABUG in the mean time.

Comment 3 Matthew Miller 2012-10-18 12:33:51 UTC
Oh, good point. Thanks. :)


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