On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 11:51:46AM +0100, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
yeah, and while at it, it would be nice to use and format a complete disk like /dev/sdb for e.g. /home. I often use this in VMs, i.e., having one virtual disk for the system and swap, and another for /home. I don't need partitions there:
$ grep /home /proc/mounts /dev/sdb /home ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
IMHO the "expert" partitioner should support this.
This has already been requested (see fate #316251; also closed as usual) but so far always been postponed since it is much work. During hackweek I have evaluated a new design for the data structures in libstorage/yast2-storage (since the current design is over 15 years old), see https://github.com/aschnell/libstorage-bgl-eval and http://lists.opensuse.org/yast-devel/2014-10/msg00045.html. That would make your request easy among many other things. Unfortunately I didn't have time since then.
(OTOH it's no big deal to do it afterward on the command line).
Since YaST does not even recognize the filesystem YaST will also
not inform the user that a filesystem is destroyed when creating
a partition table on the disk. So it's a bit dangerous.
Regards,
Arvin
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