F17 Beta anaconda labels excluded/unformatted disks

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Thu May 10 14:56:13 UTC 2012


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?

So I'm obviously worried about this given
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=817037 , but at a quick try,
I couldn't reproduce it. Could you please provide more details of
precisely what procedure you followed? And ideally, all the anaconda
logs after completing an install, reproducing the problem? Thanks!
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