[Bug 958246] Re: allow cancellation of steps that haven't started yet

[Jan Claeys]

You can already preview all the steps it will do with View -> Pending
Operations in the menu.  A time estimate would be almost impossible to
give though, as that depends on a lot of factors.

Also, there has been some tought about optimizing/folding operations in
the past, but that's not always as simple as it seems.

In any case, if it takes as long as you say, that probably means a
filesystem needs to be moved (or enlarged towards the beginning of the
disk, which requires a move first, as filesystems only allow growing at
the end).

But a possibility to cancel-after-current-operation would be great...

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Title:
  allow cancellation of steps that haven't started yet

Status in Gnome Partition Editor:
  New
Status in “gparted” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  gparted has been moving a partition for about 3 hours, estimating 4
  hours remaining for this step.  I have 5 other steps queued, and
  because, it looks like, it's not very optimal at determining its order
  of operations, two others are moving this same partition again.

  So it would be nice if I could tell it to cancel what it's doing after
  it finishes the current step, so I can manually optomize its
  operations.

  It would also be nice if it showed me all the steps it was going to do
  before it started, and if there was some estimation of how long it
  would take before it started.

  Right now I'm limited to what I can do with my computer for what could
  easily be another 14 hours, just because I thougth expanding the size
  of my swap partition at the beginning of the disk would take a
  remotely reasonable amount of time.  I really wish I just added
  another one toward the end of the disk.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: gparted 0.11.0-1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.27-generic 3.2.6
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.93-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.305
  Date: Sat Mar 17 20:03:15 2012
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120301)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gparted
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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