Ticket #1822 (new enhancement)

Opened 17 months ago

Last modified 4 months ago

Implement and test creating and deleting partitions in DriveSetup

Reported by: stippi Owned by: axeld
Priority: high Milestone: R1
Component: System/Kernel Version: R1 development
Cc: Blocked By: #1053
Platform: All Blocking:

Description

For creating/deleting logical partitions, the Intel Extended Partition add-on needs to be checked and possibly completed. For creating any partitions, we need to consider what we mean by "partition type". At the moment, I thought type means either primary, extended or logical. But primary and logical partitions really just have a type other than a type indicating an extended partitions. Part of the way, this is how the current Partition Map add-on is written. There is lots of TODOs left in this code. More testing needs to be done too. DriveSetup itself also needs to be completed to actually call the respective Disk Device API to create/delete partitions. For creating partitions, another panel needs to be implemented which retrieves the desired size within the parent disk/partition.

Change History

Changed 8 months ago by stippi

  • blockedby 1053 added

Changed 4 months ago by stippi

  • milestone changed from R1/alpha1 to R1

I don't think we will recommend using DriveSetup to partition a harddrive in R1/alpha1. Therefore this ticket should not block R1/alpha1. However, DriveSetup sometimes files to initialize a partition. For example, I've seen this happen on an Eee. On my all hardware, initializing works fine, though.

Changed 4 months ago by mmadia

See #3546 for "Information regarding DriveSetup implementation"

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