Bug#217503: Evil autopartkit should _NEVER_ _NEVER_ try to overwrite an unknown partition table
Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net> writes:
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 02:17:37AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > 3) Get rid of the autopartition alltogether. Its severly broken for
> > anything but "I'm such a stupid user but I only want one linux", which
> > kind of excludes itself. People not able to partition themself usually
> > want to keep their windows.
>
> You seem to be rather arrogantly overlooking the "I have five of these
> machines to build this week and partitions are so far down on my list of
> things to configure that I'll scream if I have to see cfdisk one more
> time" group. This is not a question of not being able to partition,
> it's a question of by-hand partitioning being a waste of time for a
> sizable number of users.
>
> With appropriate warnings about the destructive nature of partitioning,
> I believe the autopartitioner will be very useful.
They would probably have empty harddisks to begin with.
The partitioner would pop up suggesting the partitions the
autopartitioner would create now and their mountpoints and they only
have to select "finish" or "save changes".
I would like to see the partitions suggested and adjustable by the
user instead on forcing it on him. This step realy destroys data so
the user should be aware of every partiton thats going to be destroyed
and what replaces them.
MfG
Goswin
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