Bug 113826

Summary:	partitioning tool shows unexplained "*"
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Kevin Ivory <Ivory>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Thomas Fehr <fehr>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Other	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	screenshot of yast2 partition table

Description Kevin Ivory 2005-08-29 12:22:00 UTC

during installation, I went into the partitioning tool and configured some
existing partitions as noauto,user. In the resulting table, these partitions were
marked by a "*". The meaning of the asterisk should be explained in the help menu.

Comment 1 Michael Gross 2005-08-29 15:50:41 UTC

Could you please describe exactly what you did?
Which partitions did you configure how exactly, and how did the resulting table
[which table at all?] look like? Make some screenshots, please!

Before posting a bug please always read:
http://opensuse.org/index.php/Bug_Reporting_FAQ

Comment 2 Kevin Ivory 2005-08-29 18:13:49 UTC

Created attachment 48053 [details]
screenshot of yast2 partition table

Comment 3 Kevin Ivory 2005-08-29 18:14:08 UTC

That last comment is nonsense. I am definitely not going to read the FAQ before
every bug I report.
The YaST tool for partitioning is available later as "yast2 disk".
In the menu "Bearbeiten", "fstab options", I switched on some switches: user
mountable und no mount at boot. These translate to the real fstab options
"noauto,user".
Going back to the YaST table that shows a view similar to the combined output of
"fdisk -l, df and mount" commands (see attachment), the column with the mount
point has an asterisk ("*"). The meaning of the "*" is not clear and should be
explained in the help menu on the left. (screen shot done on a running SUSE 9.3
system)

Comment 4 Thomas Fehr 2005-08-30 12:46:19 UTC

Kevin is right, an explanation for the asterisk in the help menue on the left
is missing. Unfortunately we are after text freeze so the fix will not make
it into the translations but of course it makes sense to add an explanation.

Comment 5 Thomas Fehr 2005-09-05 09:54:06 UTC

Explanation will be added in RC1

Comment 6 Rebecca Walter 2005-09-05 10:50:16 UTC

Can you please provide the proposed text here?

Comment 7 Thomas Fehr 2005-09-05 10:54:35 UTC

The text is:
_("<p>
An asterisk (*) before the mount point indicates a filesystem that is 
currently not mounted and has the <b>noauto</b> option set in /etc/fstab.
</p>");

Comment 8 Rebecca Walter 2005-09-05 11:17:20 UTC

s/filesystem/file system/ 
s/<b>noauto</b>/<tt>noauto</tt>/

Comment 9 Thomas Fehr 2005-09-05 11:35:40 UTC

Changed as suggested.