Bug 2264523
| Summary: | Confusion about "Name" of partition | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Jan Stodola <jstodola> | ||||
| Component: | cockpit | Assignee: | Marius Vollmer <mvollmer> | ||||
| Status: | POST --- | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | unspecified | ||||||
| Version: | 42 | CC: | jvanderwaa, kkoukiou, mmarusak, mpitt, patrick, stefw, vtrefny | ||||
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| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Bug Blocks: | 2231339 | ||||||
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Created attachment 2017172 [details]
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Thanks for the issue, the Name in the "Create Partition" dialog is the filesystem label which afterwards can be changed. The dialog might be confusing as you are doing two steps at once, creating a partition and creating a filesystem usually if you do this by hand it's two separate steps either cfdisk /dev/sda, do your partitioning and then mkfs.xfs /dev/sda2. So maybe that should be more clear? Maybe we should just remove the "Name" field from the dialog? People can always set it later, and its present in the dialog seems to be more confusing than useful. Maybe we should just remove the "Name" field from the dialog? People can always set it later, and its presence in the dialog seems to be more confusing than useful. I think the field would be perfectly fine if it was called for example "File System Label" and was not on top of the dialog window. Removing the field is also fine from my point of view if it can be returned in case the users request it. Based on our survey from 2022, about 6.5% of people change a device label during the installation. (In reply to Jelle van der Waa from comment #2) > the Name in the "Create Partition" dialog is the filesystem label In that case, I think it would be worth renaming the field to "filesystem label" -- (GPT) partitions can also have names and when I first saw this, I thought it's partition name and not filesystem label. (In reply to Jan Stodola from comment #5) > I think the field would be perfectly fine if it was called for example "File > System Label" and was not on top of the dialog window. Yes, let's do that. This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 42 development cycle. Changing version to 42. |
When creating a new partition in cockpit storage in the installer, there is a field called "Name" as the first one. My initial thought was to enter the mount point ("/"), but since there is another field called "Mount point", I got really confused what is the purpose of the "Name" field. Some possibilities in my mind are: 1. I can write the name of the new block device: "/dev/vda1" 2. I can use it to set the file system label: "rootfs" 3. It is used as some kind of user-friendly identifier for the next steps of the installer: "My root file system" Also, it's not clear to me if the "Name" field is optional or mandatory. Can you please clarify the purpose of the "Name" field? Reproducible: Always