https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=423663 Arvin Schnell changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |aschnell@novell.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com |mschmidkunz@novell.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=423663 User pnemec@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=423663#c2 Pavel Nemec changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|FIXED | --- Comment #2 from Pavel Nemec 2008-09-11 04:23:10 MDT --- Sorry Martin I do not agree with you. Obviously. I understand all your points. But: 1) You are not reducing anything. All those information has to be presented to user anyway. You are just doing it more painfull spliting it to 4 dialogs. 2) Can be done by position on dialogue. By the way, those informations looks really really lonely. One piece of information on big 1024*768 (minimum for Graphical YaST installation) screen. 4) I do not have RAID, so I can`t comment here. 5) Can`t oppose here, actually reusing is good things. If it make sense. Do you have any feedback on partitioner? I understand that it can be just me, who do not like clicking, just to fill one information. What other users thing about this new aproach? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=423663 User coomac@gmail.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=423663#c4 Nkoli Ukpabi changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |coomac@gmail.com --- Comment #4 from Nkoli Ukpabi 2008-09-21 09:22:53 MDT --- I completely agree with Pavel here. This partitioner is overly complicated. I personally found the old partitioner very intuitive, but I can see how some people were unimpressed by it. The new partitioner basically takes the previous and completely unchanged one screen partitioner, hides it away under the hard disk overview then adds on a bunch of extra fluff for individual partitions. Everything in this new partitioner is duplicated because the old partitioner is still there in all its gnarly old glory. Everything except adding a new partition and seeing how much space is being used in one glance. For that, you need to find the screen containing the old partitioner. Then, when you're there, you realize that you can really do everything from this one screen. Partitioning the partitioner is necessary to reduce clutter, yes. However, the project should be moving in the direction of graphically depicting the hard disk, not showing a ton of extraneous info in text. If acronis, parted, etc are able to get partitioning right, opensuse should be taking a page from their books, rather than from fdisk. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=423663 User jpryor@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=423663#c6 Jonathan Pryor changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jpryor@novell.com --- Comment #6 from Jonathan Pryor 2008-10-06 12:38:46 MDT --- Just becuase the new partitioner is different doesn't mean it's *better*. I also feel that the new partitioner is a net loss in usability. For example, after entering the Expert Partitioner view, the topmost (unlabeled) node of the System view tree is selected, thus showing all partitions under the Available Storage on area. Which is fine. What isn't find is that the only buttons shown are Help, Abort, Back, and Accept. There are no context menus in the Available Storage on section. So how do I add a partition? Or remove one? Or setup LVM? Or any of a dozen other things I'd like to do? It is Not Obvious, whereas I was able to figure out the previous one in (comparatively) only a few seconds. Eventually I found that I could expand the hard Disks tree, and selecting /dev/sda would allow me to remove and create partitions (yay!). But setting up LVM? On 11.0, I could create a partition, and explicitly set the File system ID to 0x8E Linux LVM. In 11.1 Beta 2, I can set the File system ID, but it isn't preserved! It gets automatically changed to 0x83 Linux (for primary partitions) or 0x0F Extended (for extended partitions), and changing the value from the Edit... dialog has NO effect! It is, in short, very annoying and hostile. It manages to turn a straightfoward (if necessarily complicated) process into a nightmarishly complicated process, as I have to jump between multiple different tree nodes in order to accomplish what used to be on one screen. So NOW, to setup LVM, I have to create a 0x83 Linux partition first, then go to the Volume Management tree, Add Volume Group, etc., *Then* go to the Volume Group -> XXX node in order to add logical volumes. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=423663 User aschnell@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=423663#c8 Arvin Schnell changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |REOPENED Info Provider|aschnell@novell.com | --- Comment #8 from Arvin Schnell 2008-10-23 03:29:43 MDT --- That was a bug and is already fixed. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=423663 User jpryor@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=423663#c10 Jonathan Pryor changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|INVALID | --- Comment #10 from Jonathan Pryor 2008-10-23 12:24:48 MDT ---

On 11.0, I could create a partition, and explicitly set the File system ID to 0x8E Linux LVM. In 11.1 Beta 2, I can set the File system ID, but it isn't preserved! It gets automatically changed to 0x83 Linux (for primary partitions) or 0x0F Extended (for extended partitions), and changing the value from the Edit... dialog has NO effect!

Comment #8 implies that this bug was fixed. It is not fixed in Beta 3, and in fact it is worse now. If I try to create a new Primary partition, select "Do not format partition", sepcify a File system ID of "0x8E Linux LVM", and "Do not mount partition," I now get a YaST2 dialog saying: Error It is not allowed to assign a mount point to a device with nonexistent or unknown file system. So now it's not a matter of the filesystem ID (not) being preserved, now I can't do it AT ALL. FAIL. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.