why not a partition assignment mode? (Re: community etiquette (Re: Rename anaconda to cryptoconda?))

[Daniel Krawchuk]

I consider myself a basic user and what Chris describes is what I do every time I install the latest release on my laptop from the livecd, a process that has always taken a couple of minutes of configuration followed by however long copying the image took.  I re-use my existing partitions, /, /home and swap  only reformatting / since that is where the new install goes.  My partitioning scheme is about as simple as it gets.  Although it certainly would not be hard to re-create it, why has it become necessary?

Dan Krawchuk

On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 09:31:39PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:31:39 -0800
> From: Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>
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> Subject: Re: why not a partition assignment mode? (Re: community etiquette
>  (Re: Rename anaconda to cryptoconda?))
> 
> On Thu, 2012-12-06 at 14:38 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
> 
> > click 1 and click 2= get to Manual Partitioning. Click 3= reveal your partitions. Click 4= choose the partition you want to reuse. Click 5= choose a mount point. Click 6= reveal custom options. Click 7= check reformat which is not actually custom or an option, it's a requirement by anaconda.
> > 
> > Why am I required to reformat? It prevents me from using file system options set at format time.
> > 
> > The basic user who simply wants to reuse a partition or volume needs to go through 7 really non-discoverable clicks, and the expert can't even do what he wants unless he learns kickstart. Both requirements solved by point and shoot to a valid partition/volume, presented and selected in a single window.
> 
> I'm not sure that your assumption that 'basic users' just want to reuse
> a partition really holds true. It's not a hugely common use case in my
> experience, and tends to be more popular among *experienced* users, who
> have a favourite partition scheme or tool or whatever. But without any
> data, we're just comparing theories...
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