Please clarify role of reserve:true for disk devices
Bug #2067000 reported by
Josef Wolf
This bug affects 1 person
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curtin |
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Bug Description
It is not clear from the documentation what semantics the preserve flag has for disk devices.
Is preserve:false required when
- partitions are added deleted?
- Partition size changes?
- partition type changes?
- filesystem on a partition re-created (maybe different filesystem)?
Thanks,
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It's needed when you are changing the partition table (so adding a gpt partition table to a blank disk or converting gpt to dos or whatever). TBH this isn't very coherent -- the flag makes more sense when applied to a compound device like a RAID or a volume group, it's not like a curtin invocation is capable of removing a disk from your system!