[Bug 595577] New: Yast's default partitioning proposal is to reformat existing /home partition
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=595577 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=595577#c0 Summary: Yast's default partitioning proposal is to reformat existing /home partition Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.3 Version: Milestone 4 Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.3 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: jehawking@yahoo.co.uk QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.0) Gecko/20100115 SUSE/3.6.0-2.1 Firefox/3.6 Previous operating system was Opensuse 11.2 with sda1 for swap, sda2 for root and sda4 for /home. sda3 was not present but there was one unallocated block between sda2 and sda4. sda2 and sda4 were both ext3 partitions. Using the DVD for Milestone 4, I did a fresh install and the partitioning plan proposed by Yast was to reformat sda4 and split it into 3 partitions, swap, root and (probably) home. It did ask permission to do this and I was able to manually persuade it to reformat sda1 and 2 and reuse those which was what I wanted - but it was not obvious how to do this and it took some experimenting to achieve it. I wanted a clean install (lot of cruft left from previous installations) so did not consider upgrade. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot up computer with installation dvd in drive 2. Select Install 3. Enter default responses to licence etc Actual Results: Yast presented its proposal for the installation which included reformatting my /home partition. A novice could easily have agreed to this and lost their data. Expected Results: In this case there is probably no automatic solution to where yast should put the new install (no empty space) so it almost certainly has to present the user with the possible options and ask for guidance. Probably several options need to be presented one of which has to be positively selected - no defaults and no automatic options. I think I remember earlier versions having the same feature - so its probably not new. Having passed this point in the install, I do not want to undo the progress I have made to try to replicate it. Sorry about that. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=595577 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=595577#c yang xiaoyu <xyyang@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |xyyang@novell.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |aschnell@novell.com |ovo.novell.com | -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=595577 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=595577#c1 Arvin Schnell <aschnell@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |jehawking@yahoo.co.uk --- Comment #1 from Arvin Schnell <aschnell@novell.com> 2010-04-12 07:46:22 UTC --- Please provide YaST logs, see http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs/YaST. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=595577 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=595577#c2 Jim Hawking <jehawking@yahoo.co.uk> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW InfoProvider|jehawking@yahoo.co.uk | --- Comment #2 from Jim Hawking <jehawking@yahoo.co.uk> 2010-04-14 18:13:23 UTC --- Created an attachment (id=354428) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=354428) Files from /var/log/YaST2 as requested These are the files currently in the directory. I had 4 or 5 goes at this install and each one will have formatted the swap and root directories and therefore wiped the previous contents of this directory so these files only represent the last attempt by which time I was getting pretty practised at it. Also, I had problems on each go when it tried to boot into the new installation due to graphics problems. I probably overrode this on this last attempt and used zypper to install updated drivers. All this may have caused the logs to be pretty confusing. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=595577 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=595577#c3 Arvin Schnell <aschnell@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |FEATURE --- Comment #3 from Arvin Schnell <aschnell@novell.com> 2010-04-15 07:40:47 UTC --- As you already noticed the proposal has to remove one partition to make space for the installation. So the proposal is valid. Generating several proposals for the user to choose is clearly a feature request. BTW: You could have used the "Import Mount Points" function. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=595577 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=595577#c4 --- Comment #4 from Jim Hawking <jehawking@yahoo.co.uk> 2010-04-15 17:00:57 UTC --- (In reply to comment #3)
As you already noticed the proposal has to remove one partition to make space for the installation. So the proposal is valid.
Valid yes - but stupid. Asking the user is the best answer I can come up with but failing that it would be more sensible to propose deleting the old root partition than the /home one. Yast proposes the most dangerous option. The root partition can be recreated from the DVD that is already in the drive, the /home partition is the one that contains the data that is least likely to be restorable. (I do know about backups but they are not easy with a laptop and for a novice who would not spot the fault with the proposal, are an unlikely thing to have.) Also, it has a valid swap partition on the drive. Does it really need another one? It included one in the proposal.
Generating several proposals for the user to choose is clearly a feature request.
BTW: You could have used the "Import Mount Points" function.
Thank you - I did find it and used it but you only get to it if you spot the problem with the proposal. I will not pursue this further, there are bigger bugs for sure - but I do not think you have the user friendly thing right here. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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