Bug 239391

Summary: RFE: reduce partition creation from two steps to one step
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Jim Parsons <jparsons>
Component: congaAssignee: Jim Parsons <jparsons>
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Version: 5.0CC: cluster-maint, rmccabe
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Description Jim Parsons 2007-05-08 04:01:41 UTC 
Description of problem:
While prepping a hard drive for use in a VG, it is necessary to first select to
partition it (a dialog box even appears that says 'Do you want to create a
partition?'), and then choose to create a partition a second time in order to
create the actual partition and be presented the drop down that offers a
Physical Volume as a creation target. Is there an obvious explanation for this?
I understand the UI insisting on a hard drive destined to be used as a PV be at
least one all encompassing partition, but why is this  two step process? Am I
missing a step? The presence of the first dialog click thru suggests not...
Comment 1 Kiersten (Kerri) Anderson 2007-10-31 15:39:11 UTC 
Devel NAK for 5.2 - ended up below the line of available resources.
Comment 3 Ryan McCabe 2009-03-13 01:54:17 UTC 
retarget to the storage group