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Re: [PATCH] Honor kickstart's clearpart --initlabel option.



> > 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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