F10 anaconda creates duplicate labels

J. Randall Owens jrowens.fedora at ghiapet.net
Mon Mar 23 06:25:17 UTC 2009


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Callum Lerwick wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 00:10 +0100, Jos Vos wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Today I installed F10 on a system where CentOS lives in some other
>> partitions.  It appeared that F10 happily labels it filesystems
>> exactly the same as the CentOS partitions!  Is this a know issue?
>> At first sight, I don't see a bug report about it, but I might be
>> wrong.  More important: is this bug still in Rawhide?
>>
>> It is a very serious bug, it made CentOS mount Fedora partitions,
>> ending up in a real mess (until I manually editted grub.conf and
>> fstab).
> 
> It sounds like the bug is in CentOS not using UUIDs instead of labels.
> Probably because it's based on a Fedora from before we started Doing It
> Right.
> 

Doesn't the problem mean that F10 is engaging in exactly the same behaviour that
you label buggy, then?  After all, the problem was that F10 did just that kind
of labeling, too, instead of using UUIDs for its own partitions.

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