Bug 158855

Summary: autoyast GUI: always creates partition
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1 Reporter: Andreas Vetter <vetter>
Component: AutoYaSTAssignee: Uwe Gansert <ug>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Enhancement    
Priority: P5 - None CC: asklein
Version: Beta 8   
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Hardware: i386   
OS: Other   
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Description Andreas Vetter 2006-03-16 23:01:04 UTC
In autoinstallation GUI the possibility is missing to just reuse a partition without repartioning.

In other words: There is no way to just use existing partitions and either just mount it or format and mount it. The xml snippet that should be created is something like:

             <partition>
                <mount>swap</mount>
                <create config:type="boolean">false</create>
                <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
                <partition_nr config:type="integer">5</partition_nr>
             </partition>

The interesting line is the one with "create".
Comment 1 Andreas Vetter 2006-03-17 00:59:30 UTC
I just found out it's possible, when using "fixed size", giving no size, and type in the partition number.
I think this is not self explaining. I'd expect another radio button, e.g. reuse partition.
I did not read the explanation on the left side. So the explanation should be changed, too. Perhaps use the headlines:
Reuse Partitions
Setup LVM

Comment 2 Andreas Vetter 2006-03-17 10:34:42 UTC
I agree, a new button would be an enhancement. Please consider "beautifying" the description in 10.1.
Comment 3 Uwe Gansert 2006-08-11 13:35:44 UTC
fixed for SP1 and 10.2