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Bug#237534: inst report: lots of partman and LVM issues



Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> [2004-03-11 20:05]:
> > > > I don't see how it could be a no-op. At a minium, you could choose the
> > > > other partitioning scheme.
> > > 
> > > I was in the menu showing me my partition table and those options.  I
> > > choose "undo changes" and it did not do anything at all -- only
> > > repainted the screen and showed exactly the same menu, with the same
> > > settings.
> > 
> > Um, arn't we talking about the autopartition menu item?
> 
> I did:
> 
>  - auto partition
>  - use entire disk
>  - create a separate home
> 
> Then it showed me a menu, on the top showing the partitions:
> 
>   #1 primary   root
>   #5 logical   swap
>   #6 logical   home
> 
> and below that I had 4 options:
>  - finish partition and write changes
>  - automatically partition
>  - undo changes
>  - configure lvm
> 
> Pressing the "undo changes" did not do anyting at all, only repainted
> the screen.  "Configure LVM" did not work because there was no LVM PV.
> "automatically partition" is kind of futile because that's what I just
> did.  IMHO, those 3 last options should only be shown if I actually
> make a change to the partition which the auto conf system came up
> with.

Ok, I feel like I'm going around in circles here. My comments related to
the presense of the autopartitioning item only, and I gave at least
three good reasons why it should be there even though you just
autopartitioned. Later in your report, you validated one of them.

-- 
see shy jo

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