why is disk partitioning finalized so early in the install?
Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Wed Feb 13 20:00:17 UTC 2008
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 14:31 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > my apologies for what might be a few more silly questions but, in
> > my current install, i'm seeing a new dialog "Writing partitioning to
> > disk" that strongly suggests the partition table is going to be
> > updated *now* rather than near the end of the install process as it's
> > historically been.
> >
> > is that what's happening? is there a reason this has been changed?
> > it was always pretty convenient to know you could bail on an install
> > really late. but now, it looks like you're committed to it much
> > earlier.
>
> Yes, this is what's happening. See
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2007-November/msg00135.html
> for one of the threads with the reasoning
ok, so it wasn't just my imagination. good. :-)
rday
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