Bug#509378: marked as done (should use labels for all partitions in fstab)
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and subject line Bug#225802: fixed in partman-target 60
has caused the Debian Bug report #225802,
regarding should use labels for all partitions in fstab
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Package: debian-installer
I believe it would be much safer to use labels for partitions rather
than using the device nodes.
This is not such a big issue for LVM filesystems, as they can always be
found using the same name.
However, for SCSI devices, the failure to use labels is causing more and
more problems. Consider these examples:
- A recent install I did on an M600 blade server with Dell's
remote/virtual floppy
- The virtual floppy was visible as /dev/sda during the install session,
- /boot filesystem was created on /dev/sdb1 by the installer.
- debian-installer put /dev/sdb1 in /etc/fstab
- I detached the virtual floppy and rebooted
- On the subsequent boot, the /boot fs is /dev/sda1, and fstab has to be
modified - boot fails
I can also see similar situations arising when people attach a USB
device (/dev/sda) to load firmware before the main disk is found. The
main disk, if SCSI, will be /dev/sdb during the install session.
The only solution I can see is for d-i to enforce the use of labels for
/boot and other non-LVM filesystems. Using the labels with LVM
filesystems would be nice but not essential.
Note: the install I refer to above was done using d-i netboot,
downloaded on 20/12/2008, for amd64
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Source: partman-target
Source-Version: 60
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
partman-target, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
partman-target_60.dsc
to pool/main/p/partman-target/partman-target_60.dsc
partman-target_60.tar.gz
to pool/main/p/partman-target/partman-target_60.tar.gz
partman-target_60_all.udeb
to pool/main/p/partman-target/partman-target_60_all.udeb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 225802@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> (supplier of updated partman-target package)
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Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:51:22 +0100
Source: partman-target
Binary: partman-target
Architecture: source all
Version: 60
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Description:
partman-target - Provides partman with ability to prepare /target (udeb)
Closes: 225802 368294 530904
Changes:
partman-target (60) unstable; urgency=low
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[ Colin Watson ]
* Merge from Ubuntu:
- Escape spaces, tabs, newlines, and backslashes in fstab according to
the procedure described in getmntent(3) (LP: #38224).
- Issue an error message if two file systems are assigned the same label
(LP: #320872).
- Revamp filesystem mounting. We now default to using UUID= fstab syntax
for all partitions if a UUID is available; this is controllable by
preseeding partman/mount_style (choices: traditional, label, uuid).
Add a comment above each label or UUID fstab entry to indicate the
corresponding device at install time (closes: #225802).
* Don't display the Back button while checking partitioning and displaying
errors as a result, since we ignore backup there anyway (closes:
#368294).
* Fix proper_mountpoints check to cope with mountpoints containing commas.
* Use block-attr from di-utils 1.68.
.
[ Max Vozeler ]
* Use udevadm instead of udevinfo if available (closes: #530904).
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