[Bug 236866] Re: installer's partitioner "use as" has no default
Dmitrijs Ledkovs
launchpad at surgut.co.uk
Mon Sep 10 13:48:43 UTC 2012
Currently we 'mimic' debian-installer. But there is re-designed manual
repartitioning [1] which has not yet been implemented.
Can you test debian-installer on the server cd and check if that pre-
offers correct file-systems?
[1] http://goo.gl/Kokw5
** Tags added: needs-design
** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
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Title:
installer's partitioner "use as" has no default
Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
At the Partitioning step of the live installer, when you select
Manual, the Edit option can be very confusing. If you select any given
partition the window will show. The "use as" field. Now this is
alright if you assume the user is going to want to format this
partition, but sometimes you dont. I run into this problem because I
have my entire disk already partitioned and I only use the manual
partitioner to mark the root mount point and the mount point for my
home folder. It goes like this, I first mark the root mount point.
Here it makes sense for there to be no default cause I want to
reformat to ext3, so I select ext3 next to use as and I check the box
to format. Here comes the problem, when I go to edit another partiton
and I decide it should mount to /home there is no default. I have to
select ext3 next to "use as" as if I want to format it was well. I do
not want to do this at all that partition has valuable data cause its
my home folder from other distros. Granted there is a format
checkbutton, but having me select what filesystem it should have gives
the impression that it is going to be formated. I figure a compromise
might be to allow there to be no default when editing an partition,
but when a partition has already been marked as the root mount point
then the default should be the detected filesystem on that particular
partition. Its something to think about at least.
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