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Re: The Main Screen of Partman



On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 01:23:42PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> 
> I'd like to see the LVM and raid config be moved out of the main menu.

What about an "Advanced" item in the main screen leading to a meny with:

- Configure LVM
- Configure RAID
- Default code page for FAT partitions
- Probably something to add items in the /media directory

> Since users have to go in and set partitions to be used by LVM or raid,
> it seems to me that the lvm and raid could be set up at that point. It
> might help if it was tighter integrated into partman's UI, so you could
> select the volume group to make a partition part of as soon as you
> selected it was a LVM partition or something.

You are certainly right but at present I don't like the idea to start
implementing this as it will lead to big code change and I'd like to see
the code of partman more stable (immutable) before the release of sarge.

Anton Zinoviev




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