Bugzilla – Bug 382158
Cannot format mounted partition
Last modified: 2008-06-25 10:42:29 UTC
When installing for the live cd, i wanted to format an existing partition and install 11.0 there. When i went through all the settings and started the installation process it failed instantly saying it couldn't format the mounted partition. The live cd should automatically unmount a mounted partition if it needs to. Manually running umount /dev/sda3 allowed me to format and install like i wanted to.
hmm, was this kde or gnome? We usually ignore built in disks in both, but I explicitly changed that for the live cd config so the user has access to his data. But if the desktop mounts it (automatically? or did you trigger it?) then we're screwed for the install indeed. Jiri, do you think it's possible to unmount and lock all builtin before disk proposal runs? It should be pretty easy to write a little C helper if needed - just go through all hal devices, Storage.Umount and set info.locked
This was the gnome live cd. Also, the partitions were mounted completely automatically. Let me know if you need any other info.
Stephan, I can do it, however, I will need some more detailed how-to, since I have never played around with HAL.
I try to write a helper tool. If that fails, I disable the builtin disks again
What would that helper tool do, other than unmounting? Can't just the process, which does the actual formatting, do an unconditional umount before it tries to format the volume?
unmount and lock, so that the desktop is not remounting it once it was formatted. Normally we volume.ignore=true all builtin paritions, but for the live I changed that
*** Bug 384322 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I disabled the feature to automount partitions for the moment
*** Bug 382696 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
mass reopening of later+remind bugs of 11.0
the problem as such does not exist with the live cd any longer.