Bug#201191: partconf: mkfs should indicate progress
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:30:30PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
>> It would definitely help compared to what we have today, but it would still
>> suck.
> Yes, but I don't think it's worth to invest more time in that now. This
> would be an easy and acceptable solution.
Well, it's not a matter of time, really -- adding progress bars to
autopartkit was quite easy once libparted1.6 support was in place. It's more
a matter of "is this an okay way of doing it".
> I don't know how stable parted on i386 is. Last time I tried to format a
> partition with parted on my powerbook it just hung forever and did not
> format the partition. So I thought parted my be a little bit flaky.
> Actually I don't know if the bug is in the frontend or the library.
FWIW, I've used autopartkit quite a lot, and never seen any problems with
libparted.
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