On 16/05/2025 at 23:52, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
3. Should we hide dangerous options like "nobarrier" by making them exclusive to expert mode? How?AFAIK partman does not currently supports this. What about a "(DANGEROUS!)" comment in the option description ?That's a good idea. I used up all my free time working on other items so didn't find an example syntax. Would it be option ("Human description") option "(Human Description)"
I did not understand what you meant until I saw your new commits in the MR. As you may already have observed, adding descriptions in mountoptions/btrfs does not work. The current logic in partman-basicfilesystems/select_mountoptions considers each "word" in mountoptions/* files as a separate option, so you cannot add descriptions here.
Mount option descriptions should be added as partman-basicfilesystems/text/<option> debconf templates, so that they can be translated. FWIW, `noatime` and `nodiratime` already have description templates.