https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=574121 In the installer, some users prefer custom partitioning. I use it to maintain several boxes that contain a "bare-metal" non-virtual instance of each version that my customers use. Some machines have several harddrives, each with a dozen or so root partitions. I use volume labels [blkid; tune2fs -l; etc.] to help keep track of which system is which. My typical labels encode the brand (Fedora, CentOS, Ubuntu, Windows, ...], the release number and level (alpha, beta, final), and the wordsize (32 or 64.) Using labels is particularly important because the order of harddrive discovery is random (/dev/sda need not designate the same drive from boot to boot) and UUIDs are too cumbersome except for verification. Virtualization is not an option because it is not inter-operable with all systems, it distorts performance measurements, and because in the past it was too buggy. LVM is not an option because it is not inter-operable with all systems, and because its calculus is not complete (there is no primitive command to remove a partition from the bag of blocks.) Recent anaconda Create Custom Layout dialogs have been hard to use because the filesystem label is omitted, for both choosing and editing a partition. Also, the Edit dialog not only omits the existing label, but also offers no chance to specify a new label after formatting. The way I set up a new system is to use fdisk/parted/gparted to create a new partition from free space, and mkfs a vfat/ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem with label. Then in anaconda I find the same partition by label [currently I do this using bash text commands on VT2] and re-format it always, in order to capture the installer's default parameters for the filesystem. So, I'd like to see a Custom partition chooser/editor that displays the label for each partition, and allows to specify a new label whenever formatting. There is plenty of space: 1/2 to 2/3 of the screen. I favor displaying the label and the UUID always, although I can understand others wanting /dev/disk/{by-id,by-path,by-partlabel}. -- _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
