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pcalvert

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Registered: 2017-05-15

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Refracta Installer - possible bug found

It looks like I found bug in Refracta Installer. It appears that Refracta Installer may look for an ext2/ext3/ext4 file system, and if it doesn't find one, it assumes that the partition has not been formatted. I also tested the CLI version of Refracta Installer, and the behavior was the same.

The system and home partitions had been pre-formatted as follows:

# mkfs.nilfs2 /dev/sdc1
# mkfs.nilfs2 /dev/sdc3

I also did a final, quick test. I formatted /dev/sdc1 as ext2 to see if the installer would try to force me to format again, and it did not.

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An idea just came to me about what might have caused this. Originally, I wasn't going to use encryption because this system is basically a test, and I'm not planning to use it for very long. However, when I saw the installer option to encrypt /home, I decided to check it. But now that I'm thinking about it, I'm not sure that this will work for a pre-formatted partition. The way the installer works, doesn't formatting the partition need to come after the encryption?

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