Bugzilla – Bug 113826
partitioning tool shows unexplained "*"
Last modified: 2005-09-05 11:35:40 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.
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
Created attachment 48053 [details] screenshot of yast2 partition table
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)
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.
Explanation will be added in RC1
Can you please provide the proposed text here?
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>");
s/filesystem/file system/ s/<b>noauto</b>/<tt>noauto</tt>/
Changed as suggested.