Bug 867558 – add new mount point dialog offers /usr as option (and should not)

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)

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	anaconda (Show other bugs)
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Version:	18
Hardware:	Unspecified Unspecified

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Assigned To:	David Cantrell
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Reported:	2012-10-17 14:03 EDT by Matthew Miller
Modified:	2013-01-09 21:24 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2012-10-17 23:41:31 EDT
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Description Matthew Miller 2012-10-17 14:03:12 EDT

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 17:55:01 EDT

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 2012-10-17 23:41:31 EDT

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 08:33:51 EDT

Oh, good point. Thanks. :)

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