Re: Installation changing the Partition Label
by John M Cavallo
On Monday 31 March 2008 12:44:24 pm Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 07:17:05AM -0400, John M Cavallo wrote:
> > I believe anaconda did write a label of '/' when one already existed. I
> > will try to confirm this this evening.
>
> If that is really the case that would be a nasty bug; especially
> that anaconda was avoiding doing that for quite a while.
I reinstalled with the root partition of my Fedora 8 labeled '/' and the 9
partition '/f9' and it kept the name. Apologies for the mistake.
>
> OTOH it is been often very annoying that anaconda does not have an
> option which would allow you to specify your own labels. This is
> not a show-stopper though but it could be a serious PITA at times.
I agree.
> > On the other point, it should recycle the labels on partitions
> > that are only reformatted not resized, since other installations
> > on that disk will rely on those. Why should it rewrite the
> > partition table when the partition aren't changed?
>
> Labels are not on partitions but on file systems so not resizing
> is not relevant but reformatting is. If anaconda wrote labels
> which collide with ones which already exist that would be really
> the same bug as the above. A way to recover would be to boot
> "rescue", without mounting any file systems, and to fix offending
> labels from there.
>
> If you are indeed seeing such problem, and an idea is to skip label
> checking in anaconda, then appending some random, long enough,
> string to "usual" labels would make in practice such label
> collisions highly unlikely.
>
> Michal
16 years
Tuesday's Rawhide
by Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX
The NFS install actually installed a Working Linux today.
And it seems to understand that static IP means no DHCP.
However the settings for nameserver and gateway were ignored.
The new add software program still can't actually install software.
But at least yum still works.
I've noticed that another distro automatically looks for a different
driver if the X server can't get going. This would be useful
for Fedora, or at least a text mode command to set X
to use the appropriate driver.
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16 years
npviewer.bin + samba
by "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"
SELinux is preventing npviewer.bin (nsplugin_t) "getattr" to
/etc/samba/smb.conf (samba_etc_t).
Is selinux preventing npviewer for doing something it's supposed to be doing
or is selinux preventing npviewer for doing something it not supposed to
be doing
Curios to know why npviewer.bin wants to access my smb.conf...
Best regards
Johann B.
16 years
