Opened 4 years ago

Last modified 2 years ago

#15634 new bug

[DriveSetup] add Format partition checkbox to Create partition dialog

Reported by: diver Owned by: stippi
Priority: normal Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: Applications/DriveSetup Version: R1/Development
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked By: Blocking: #16304
Platform: All

Description

When creating a BFS partition it's not immediately obvious that it won't be formatted to BFS. Installer will complain about such partition even though they will be labelled as (Be File System) adding even more confusion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHGcNdb0q-Q

Adding "Format to BFS" checkbox (enabled by default) to this dialog could avoid the confusion:

Installer should also mark unformatted partitions somehow.

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Change History (9)

by diver, 4 years ago

Attachment: DriveSetup.png added

comment:1 by pulkomandy, 4 years ago

Do we even need a checkbox? Would it not make sense to automatically bring the user to the "filesystem initialization" dialog? Which can be cancelled anyway.

comment:2 by diver, 4 years ago

The checkbox will avoid additional "filesystem initialization" dialog.

comment:3 by pulkomandy, 4 years ago

The filesystem initialization dialog cannot be skipped completely. You have to select the block size and decide wether to enable queries or not.

There are really two different steps and each with different options and dialogs possible:

1) creating the partition. Which is different on MBR vs GPT disks

2) initializing, which is different in BFS, FAT, NTFS, etc.

I don't think it's easy to completely merge the two steps then. An "assisted" mode as is found in typical Linux installers would be nice and solve a lot of the confusion. Something like "I don't care, wipe everything from the disk and set it up however you want". But we should keep the existing dialogs for more advanced cases.

However, creating a partition and then not formatting it is quite useless, so chaining partition creation and initialization would make sense. Except there is currently no way to map a partition type (which is only informative and only exists for MBR anyway) to a filesystem, so we should add that too.

Last edited 4 years ago by pulkomandy (previous) (diff)

comment:4 by pulkomandy, 3 years ago

Milestone: UnscheduledR1/beta3

comment:5 by pulkomandy, 3 years ago

Blocking: 16304 added

comment:6 by X512, 3 years ago

The filesystem initialization dialog cannot be skipped completely. You have to select the block size and decide wether to enable queries or not.

It should be merged into one dialog. Creating partition without formatting makes no sense (if it is really needed, RAW file system can be selected). The same behavior is done in Windows diskmgmt.msc.

Last edited 3 years ago by X512 (previous) (diff)

comment:7 by pulkomandy, 3 years ago

Milestone: R1/beta3R1/beta4

Move unsolved issues to beta 4 since there is no chance of fixing them now.

comment:8 by pulkomandy, 2 years ago

Milestone: R1/beta4Unscheduled

Moving various tickets out of the beta4 milestone because no one is actively working on them.

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