On Wed, 2015-10-14 at 10:39 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: > Hi, > > On 10/14/2015 10:12 AM, David Lehman wrote: > > Is the ESP really so special? What about other shared filesystems? > > One > > could certainly have multiple linux installations that all use the > > same > > /home or /tunes or whatever. Should we schedule removal the first > > time > > the user asks us to remove one of these, or should we silently only > > remove it from the specified root in the UI until/unless they've > > removed it from the last root it's part of? I know the windows case > > is > > different in that the ESP is still shared even when the only root > > is > > "Unknown", but the rest seems to overlap. > > I think ESP is special in that, if you have multiboot with shared > filesystems that aren't ESP, you probably put that in place yourself > so > you should be well aware of your own setup. But Anaconda by default > shares any existing ESPs if you don't do custom install, so we do > that > for you and you don't opt in (if that makes sense.) > > I also think other shared filesystems are more likely to be data. We > do > separate data partitions from system ones in the list... > > It would be *nice* to have some kind of affordance around shared data > partitions if we knew they were shared, but I don't know that we do? I think we've established pretty firmly that users cannot be expected to know (or think about) their setups when clicking buttons during installation. David > > ~m > > _______________________________________________ > Anaconda-devel-list mailing list > Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
