Hi, * Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> [2003-11-01 02:49]: | partitioner refers to disks using their devfs device names and a bit of | info about the drive manufacturer and size), while partconf uses a | physical description such as "IDE1 master, part. 1". It would be good | design to use the same terminology throughout. | | I suspect that partconf's method would be more accessible to the avarage | user, but perhaps more likely to break down with weird and unusual types | of drives. partitioner's method can be very effective too -- when I see | a SCSI device called "jumpdrive" and see the same term on the side of my | USB keychain, I know what drive that is. Most effective might be a | display that combines all of these: | | IDE1 master (Generic foo), 256 MB | IDE1 master (Generic foo), partition 1, 256 MB | | If a standalone program were broken out of parts of the two packages to | map between devfs devices and human readable strings, then it could | possibly be used elsewhere in the installer too. For example, my | iso-scan package displays raw devfs device names to the user right now. | | (BTW, the "part." abbreviation in partconf seems rather unnecessary. | Writing out "partition" should easily fit in the available space. Or at | least don't abbreviate it when it will fit.) Long time ago, I have propsed to include a device2name mapper function in libd-i, which handle such things. It takes a list of device names, and format it to a good name. The benefit of this solution is, that each program, which needs to display devices can use this function. And all harddrive descriptions are the same. I think it's time to start including this. Some words about the nameing schema. Personally I don't like the way of partconf. Because mostly I simply doesn't now the correct device path, but most of the time I know the manufacturer and the size of the disk. Bye Thorsten
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