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Re: [PATCH] Honor kickstart's clearpart --initlabel option.
- From: Chris Lumens <clumens redhat com>
- To: anaconda-devel-list redhat com
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Honor kickstart's clearpart --initlabel option.
- Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:48:19 -0400
> > Check out the partitioning code on master, and the clearpart command in
> > pykickstart. --initlabel means to clear the disk label on all disks,
> > not just the ones specified with --drives=. This is probably wrong
> > behavior, but it's what we've done and what people have (hopefully) come
> > to expect.
>
> Maybe now is the time to fix this?
Now's as good a time as any.
> > The one exception to this rule is that we do not initialize the disk
> > label on a disk that has protected partitions.
>
> What exactly do we do? Remove all other partitions from it?
If there's a protected partition on the disk, we do not initialize the
disk label. Whether or not to remove other partitions is outside the
realm of --initlabel. But in general, yes we would remove the other
partitions and keep the protected ones around.
- Chris
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