The main-menu item of partman [was: Bug#237534: inst report: lots of partman and LVM issues]
On 12.III.2004 at 07:10 Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Joey Hess (joeyh@debian.org):
>
> > > Not sure. Maybe "Partition disks" and "Partition disks (cfdisk)"
> > > since cfdisk might be a term people understand... but that's not ideal
> > > either. I'm sorry I don't have a good solution either. :/
> >
> > cfdisk is not used on all architectures. There's also the queston of
> > what to call partconf.
>
> In another thread, I suggested "Partition disks (expert)" for partconf
> and "Partition disks" alone for partman.
The following comes from an installation report that I just closed:
#236069> The current dialogs, especially in the beginning, give the
#236069> suggestion that the only function of partman is
#236069> _partitioning_ and not also the selection of mountpoints.
#236069>
#236069> This confused me at first.
#236069>
#236069> I think this could be improved a lot with changes like:
#236069> 'partition with custom settings'
#236069> -> 'partition disks and/or mount partitions with custom settings'
#236069> 'finish partitioning and write changes'
#236069> -> 'finish partitioning, write changes (if any) and mount partitions'
Anton Zinoviev
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