Bug#201191: partconf: mkfs should indicate progress
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 08:53:30AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Sebastian Ley]
> > I know that will be difficult, but as Tollef stated we need a progress
> > indicator for mkfs. If nothing happens when formatting a large partition
> > the lowbrow user might believe d-i crashed or something...
>
> If we use libparted 1.6 for filesystem generation, it should be able
> to supply progress information.
libparted can only create ext[23], *fat and reiserfs, right? The advantage
of the current method is that it's very easy to drop in other file system
types, since all partconf does, is cross-check /proc/filesystems and
/sbin/mkfs.*
/Martin
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