Bug#249041: partman in d-i RC2 breaks Red-Hat FC2 by setting root FS label.

[Eric Lavarde <debian.bugs.nospam@zorglub.s.bawue.de>]

Package: partman
Version: RC2
Followup-For: Bug #249041


Hi,

I posted the following on debian-devel and was told that I should file
the bug against partman (so here you are! ;-) ):

I don't know if my opinion counts but I _did_ notice that d-i creates
labels, and at the same time broke my parallel Red-Hat FC2 installation,
which all of soudain tried to use my debian root partition (LABEL=/) as
its own root partition, without luck of course, and with a lot of really
strange error messages.
It took me quite a while to figure out the problem, so here is the
message: labels do only properly work at install time, if no other
system is using them as well. 

So, I don't think it's especially a good idea to set labels by default.

Thanks, Eric

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)