Re: Bug#982917: nvme-cli: Add a nvme-cli-udeb package?
Cyril Brulebois, le ven. 23 avril 2021 23:36:24 +0200, a ecrit:
> Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> (2021-04-23):
> > I don't have any particular pointer beyond stackoverflow
> > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/520231/what-are-nvme-namespaces-how-do-they-work
> >
> > Basically they are a hardware-level partitioning, before the well-known
> > software partitioning: /dev/nvme0n1p1 is device 0, namespace 1,
> > partition 1.
> >
> > > (My only experience was a fresh install on an NVMe device replacing an
> > > aging SSD, and I haven't had to do anything specific.)
> >
> > I guess usually NVMe are shipped with a default namespace spanning the
> > whole disk, but that could be not always true.
>
> OK. Would we expect to have something in the installation guide
> documenting how to create a namespace if there are none? Or would you
> like to implement a change in d-i to handle that in the regular debconf
> question flow?
Ideally we could have questions in d-i, but that seems quite involved
for a probably very rare need. We can however easily add a note about
the nvme manual commands in the guide, yes.
Samuel
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