[Drive setup] Setting active partition

[starsseed]

Setting active partition should be possible at any time, not only when creating the partition

[bebop]

We have the parameters panel framework pretty much there, maybe we could create a menu item named properties and have a params panel displayed for that. For this specific case we could display:

• a switch for active partition
• the size of the partition
• partition type
• a name field if supported
• an icon to represent partition type or partitioning system type?

A problem I see with this would be, would you get the partitions information or the file systems information if the selected partition had a file system. Obvious for setting active partition bit you would want the partition, but I could see wanting to be able to set properties of the file system as well. Maybe a dialog with one on top of the other? I am curious as to how other people think about how this should be solved.

[starsseed]

We could provide a menu item, enabled for inactive (and non-extended) primary partition.

So, everything would be self-contained in the Intel-partition-map.

[dogcow]

Can this be closed? DriveSetup now has a checkbox option under Partition > Change parameters... > [ ] Active partition.