Labels: Human readable partition labels are incredibly valuable. Especially when you have many partitions with different distros installed for multi-booting. You can give the partitions meaningful labels and see the labels to help sort out an otherwise confused mass of partitions. In particular, if you have decided to discard an old release and install a new one, the labels are extremely useful for making absolutely sure you pick the right partition to reformat and install on. Anaconda seems to go out of its way to not show labels and (I've heard) I won't even be able to see them when clicking the Edit button anymore. Don't do that. Bring them back. They are absolutely the only human controlled and human readable bit of information that can be used to identify a partition. Speaking of human control, it would sure be nice if I could set the label as well when I use anaconda to format a partition (though this isn't as important since the partition with no label on it is a good way to identify the one anaconda just formatted - but if I formatted multiple partitions, even that could get tricky). see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=574121 Model numbers: See this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=574120 (which seems to have reappeared in the final fedora 16 when it wasn't in the alpha or beta). Some really geeky users may have the model numbers of their disks memorized, but mostly any screen that has no info other than disk model numbers is going to be really useless for making a choice of any kind. What do I want? I'd eliminate the multiple screens you have to advance through to make choices about what you want to do with disks. I'd replace it with a single screen that shows as much information as can be obtained about every disk, but with the disks "locked" so they can't be changed accidentally. When I decide which disks I want to clobber (which I can do much more easily with things like the partition labels being displayed), I could then unlock them and proceed to select partitions to reformat or free space to turn into new partitions. _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
