On 10/11/2010 08:51 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 12:44:49 -0500, > Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> I think that is a misfeature. I don't want anything irreversible to be done >>> until I say go. >>> >> You know that Fedora has done partitioning/mkfs about halfway through >> the install for a while now, right? I don't see why there would be a >> problem with letting that run in the background while continuing through >> the questions. >> > > I forget which stuff gets done afterwards, since I haven't done a fresh install > for a while now. (I mostly do yum upgrades and play with live USB images.) > But I do remember a clear no/no go point where disk drive file systems get > formatted. Depending on the file systems being used that can take a little > bit of time to complete, but is short compared to the rest of the install. > Actually formatting a large partition ( and >=1 TB disks are becoming more and more frequent) DOES take enough time to go boil a coffee. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
