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 <jpryor@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jpryor@novell.com --- Comment #6 from Jonathan Pryor <jpryor@novell.com> 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.