Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (850 mails)

[Lukas Ocilka <lukas.ocilka@xxxxxxx>]

>> Add to that, that data on an encrypted disk probably haves an huge value. At 
>> this moment the installer would format it as /home cause it is my biggest 
>> partition. 
>>
>> Won't report a wish yet, discussion comes first.
> 
> Well, you have better use "Update" and not a "New Installation" in this
> case. However, I've asked a maintainer of the partitioner package what
> does he think of that.
> 
> Partitioner, as it is now, is a very-well done considering the unseen
> layer (e.g., API), on the other hand, dialogs need to be changed to
> match our needs better. This is work in progress...

Question: Thomas, what do you think of this request?
Thomas' reply: Nothing, since proposal does not know anything about
content of a partition it cannot fulfil such requests. It is simply
impossible to determine a encrypted partition from a partition
containing random data, otherwise the encryption would be weak.

Asking questions during proposal generation is not an option.

See also bugzilla #203858, which requests similar functionality.

Such things (not formatting /home, recognizing root partition)
can and will of course be part of the LVM based proposal where one
can use the LV name to determine what a LV is used for, but one
cannot decide such things just from device name and filesystem type.