Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (905 mails)

[Jan Matějek <jmatejek@xxxxxxx>]

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Stanislav Visnovsky napsal(a):
| Dňa Tuesday 03 June 2008 17:50:42 Jan Mate(jek ste napísal:
|> Partitioner should also be more clever with handling "empty" partitions,
|> ~ i.e. existing partitions which contain nothing (or "lost+found",
|> "recycled", "system volume information", ".Trash" and friends), and
|> primarily offer to wipe and format those. And if there is an existing
|> partitioning scheme, it better not touch it, unless it has a good reason
|> to.
|
| This assumes you can mount the partitions. But this is not always the
case, as
| even mounting might mean modifying a partition. Now imagine you cannot
mount
| a partition (because it's broken). In the worst case, you might hit a
kernel
| bug and end up with kernel panic.
|
| I think safety goes first in this scenario and the installer should
not mess
| with partitions until user asks him to do (IRIC if you select
'Update', the
| installer mounts the disks looking for older releases)

I understand the concern about mounting, but that is a problem solvable
in implementation - doesn't e.g. parted somehow determine available
space on partition without mounting it?

And anyway. In the current state, the partitioner _by default_ proposes
a reworked partitioning scheme, with little regard to the existing one.
Which is safer for the installer, but actually more dangerous for the
average Next-clicker.

m.

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| Stano
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