Bug 1225067

Summary:	Add more info to "Select A Disk" dialog during install
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Aeon	Reporter:	Mike Watkins <solutionroute>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Richard Brown <rbrown>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Current
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Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	Other
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Description Mike Watkins 2024-05-23 03:37:34 UTC

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Selec A Disk currently displays a string comprised of media type + media name + size + serial number; plus size as another value.

For those of us with multiple drives, whether the others have an OS on them or not (data or backup devices), it would be uber-helpful if this dialog could show a bit more info to support selection. If it were possible to gather information from the partitions on a drive, this would help in decision making too.

lsblk -o name,label,fstype,serial

This would, for example, help one avoid overwriting a drive with a different OS or a file system that obviously doesn't belong to a previous Aeon install.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install



To be sure of the disk I was installing to, I aborted the install, restarted my RC1 installation, ran an appropriate lsblk command, and took a photo of the output.

Comment 1 Richard Brown 2024-05-23 07:57:57 UTC

Not truely an "Aeon" bug, in the sense that most Aeon hardware isn't going to have that many disks that such a feature is useful

But, I can see it being more useful for tik in contexts other than Aeon

Therefore closing this bug as RESOLVED UPSTREAM and opened https://github.com/sysrich/tik/issues/17

Also marked as a good first issue because a new contributor should already have a lot of hints as what to do given the awesome quality of the bug report

Thanks!