On Oct 1, 2012, at 3:58 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > On 10/01/2012 11:53 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> I think it's a good design goal to get to, eventually, but I don't think it should be a release requirement for F18. > Disk partitioning resembles open heart surgery. The patient suffers when not done well. Bad analogy. I therefore refuse the premise. > If Fedora doesn't have good support for custom partitioning people like me will want to > jump to a distribution that does have good support for custom partitioning. And > we will be debugging Ubuntu, Suse, etc. and not Fedora. You haven't had a point and shoot [1] installer to date with Fedora. a.) parted always wipes the partition map and replaces it, even if you're not changing anything (which causes hybrid MBRs to be nuked, BTW); and b.) it will not let you install to a volume that it's also not set to format. I don't know if these two behaviors will persist in newui. Chris Murphy [1]I mean the user points the installer to an existing valid formatted partition(s) and the installer does not write out a new partition table, does not format the partition, it just starts installing. -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
