Hi John, On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 21:26 -0700, John Reiser wrote: > Installation Destination gave only the barest info: disk manufacturer > and model, with gross capacity. There was no connection information > (sda, sdb, ...; pci-...-scsi-...; usbN; etc.). We don't show sda/sdb/usbN/scsi (at least if you have more than one scsi card) because those are not reliable and can change from boot-to-boot because they're assigned based on scan ordering and the order in which the relevant modules are loaded. We're very cautious about protecting users from dataloss where we can, so if a storage label is not persistent / reliable, we decided to not use it. We do plan to show different icons for disks based on their type as Chris described further down in the thread, but I think those are for USB vs local disk vs network disk. So if knowing a disk is pci vs scsi is helpful in identifying a given disk, we could consider putting in the hover information alongside the serial number. > Horizontal scrolling sucks; > my box has 5 drives, and I want to see them all at once. Can you tell us a little bit more about your setup? I'm guessing it's a desktop machine, right? What kind of drives do you have in it, how do you use them? Are they all the same size and RAIDed, or does each have a different OS, or...? We're trying to design the UI to be as seamless as possibly for the majority of users who would use a GUI to install Fedora, which we've found is overwhelmingly laptop users who are necessarily limited to a small max bound of disks. However, we still want it to work for other cases. > Sometimes I have multiple drives of the same make and model, > so I need to see the serial numbers, too. We do display those if you hover over the drives. How do you know the serial number - do you open up the box and look so you are sure? > I want to see the volume label type (MSDOS, GPT, Apple, ...), > plus the partitions, size, label, filesystem type, used space, > unused space, last mount point: everything that gparted displays. If you want to see all of the information that gparted displays, I would suggest using gparted. The installer environment is necessarily limited; folks with more advanced use cases should use specialized software like gparted in an environment meant for that for a better experience. Right now if you select a disk in this screen and continue, we will try to use any free space available on the disk. If there isn't enough free space available we'll offer to shrink the FS for you. We will never overwrite data on the disk unless you tell us to. The new ui will have a section in the first screen of the storage spoke for working with specialized disks - I don't think it's turned on in the UI for Fedora and it won't be, but it will for RHEL - that has a tabular format for working with iSCSI, hardware RAID, DASD/zFCP, and other SAN devices. > There was no message "No LVM2 structures were found" which is > required in order to increase my confidence and help detect errors. Can you tell us a little bit more about what you were looking to do here? ~m _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
