[Bug 423663] New: adding partition with partitioner is very complicated
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=423663 Summary: adding partition with partitioner is very complicated Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Alpha 2 Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: pnemec@novell.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com CC: mschmidkunz@novell.com Found By: --- New partitioner have very complex and confusing gui. Adding partition is much more complicated than it was in previous version. What you need to do to add partition to disk sda? 1) click on certain device 2) select "Partition" 3) select "add" 4) click Next 5) click Next 6) click Finish. In previous version you just click add+finish. All information were in one dialog. Now they are split across 4 dialogs.... Does it make sense? -- 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.
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Arvin Schnell
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Martin Schmidkunz
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Pavel Nemec
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Nkoli Ukpabi
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--- Comment #5 from Martin Schmidkunz
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Jonathan Pryor
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Martin Schmidkunz
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.
Sorry, I don't see your point here: in the old partitioner you needed to create a 0x83 partition first as well. When you click on LVM a pop up appears telling you that a 0x83 partition is required and that you have to click on create.
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!
Arvin: is there any technical reason for this? This doesn't seem to make sense to me as well. -- 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.
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Arvin Schnell
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Martin Schmidkunz
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Jonathan Pryor
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.
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Arvin Schnell
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