/ must be on a partition or LV that will be formatted. Reusing an existing / is not allowed.

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Mon Oct 17 15:02:38 UTC 2011


On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 13:46 +0200, nodata wrote:
> Does this entry in the anaconda changelog really mean what I think it does:
> 
> "/ must be on a partition or LV that will be formatted. Reusing an
> existing / is not allowed."

I don't know, as I can't read your mind from here. But what it means is
that when you're doing a fresh install you have to format the /
partition. Not doing so has always been a very bad idea and unlikely to
work very well, but anaconda hasn't actively prevented you from doing it
before.
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