F17 Beta anaconda labels excluded/unformatted disks

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 10:17 -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> It seems that F17 Beta anaconda writes disk labels to all disks, even
> if they have been excluded in the disk selection screen and have not
> been chosen for formatting in the Custom/Verify Partitioning screen.
> At one point it even wanted to re-label a USB flash drive I had
> inserted (not used to boot anaconda).  This is a serious issue as it
> can cause data loss unless you are paying attention to the warning
> dialog that says what will be labeled/formatted.  Has anyone else
> noticed this?

Beta is old; it'd be more useful to test TC4. However, I think
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=817037 may be a similar
report. I'll test and see if I can hit this.

> A second problem I noticed is that anaconda gets stuck in an infinite
> loop during labeling/formatting if there is an existing FreeBSD ZFS
> GPT disk label on one of the disks (that should have been
> excluded/left untouched).
> 
> I'll try to reproduce and report these issues to Bugzilla.

Thanks.
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