Re: F26 Self Contained Change: Blivet-GUI in Anaconda

[Samuel Rakitničan]

>  = Proposed Self Contained Change:Blivet-GUI in Anaconda =
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/AnacondaBlivetGUI
>  
>  Change owner(s):
>  * Martin Kolman <mkolman(a)redhat.com&gt;
>  * Vojtěch Trefný <vtrefny(a)redhat.com&gt;
>  
>  
>  Add blivet-gui as an alternative option for storage configuration in
>  Anaconda Installer.
>  
>  
>  == Detailed Description ==
>  Add blivet-gui as an alternative option for storage configuration in
>  Anaconda Installer.
>  Unlike the current custom partitioning screen in Anaconda, which works
>  in a top-down way (user specifies mountpoints and their properties),
>  blivet-gui works with the bottom-up principle (user has full control
>  to assemble the storage configuration from individual members). By
>  integrating blivet-gui into anaconda we will make the bottom-up
>  partitioning available to users during the installation. Blivet-gui is
>  built on top of the blivet library, which is used by Anaconda for
>  storage configuration, this makes the change very easy to implement
>  and doesn't bring new code and dependecies into the installer other
>  than a relatively small GUI package.
>  
>  
>  == Scope ==
>  * Proposal owners:
>  - blivet-gui devs: Prepare blivet-gui for integration into Anaconda --
>  change the UI to look consistently while running fullscreen inside an
>  Anaconda spoke, change look and feel of blivet-gui dialogs to match
>  Anaconda dialogs, add storage configuration sanity checking into
>  blivet-gui.
>  - anaconda devs: Add an option to use blivet-gui to the Storage spoke,
>  add blivet-gui package as a dependency of the anaconda package so that
>  it is pulled into the installation environment and also add an option
>  to not show blivet-gui in anaconda if requested (see
>  https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/blob/master/docs/user-interaction...
>  for detailed explanation how hiding spokes works in Anaconda).
>  
>  * Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
>  
>  * Release engineering: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
>  
>  * List of deliverables: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
>  
>  * Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
>  
>  * Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change) 
Will this allow to manually partition partially partitioned disk?

I never managed to do that with anaconda and had to use gparted from Live media.