On Tuesday 2016-04-12 10:04, Ancor Gonzalez Sosa wrote:
> Right now the mechanism to reuse existing partitions is not 100% clear.
>
> Case 1 - EFI partition
>
> If there is already an EFI partition in the system, the VolumesGenerator
> will not include an EFI partition in the list of volumes (since we don't
> need to create it). It's not clear to me who/when will do the actual
> work of reusing the existing partition.
>
> Case 2 - Swap
>
> Right now, VolumesGenerator always includes a swap volume, even if there
> is one in the system. This PBI suggests that deciding between creating a
> new partition or resizing an existing one would be a task for SpaceMaker
> and PartitionCreator.
>
> We need a more consistent approach. Ideas?
>
> Maybe having something like
> vol.reuse_device = "/dev/sdc3"
> so the VolumesGenerator already decides that?
Something for settings? Like reuse_efi_system_partition, reuse_swap?
BTW, the ml is opensuse-storage; Cc-ing.
Steffen
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