Bug 176226 - partioning: request file system type before mount point during manual / modified
Summary: partioning: request file system type before mount point during manual / modified
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Status: CLOSED DEFERRED
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 5
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-12-20 11:21 UTC by David Timms
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-12-22 17:03:32 UTC
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Description David Timms 2005-12-20 11:21:17 UTC
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Description of problem:
In a logical sense, a user should fill in the dialogs from top down (at least for english languages ; )
During partitioning it would therefore make better sense to choose a file system type before choosing it's mount point.
This would get around feeling obliged to select a mount point, and then finding that selecting the swap type clears the previous entry. Also, it makes more sense to choose a file system type (ie the formatting of the logical volume or partition) before choose where to mount it.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. During step parttype, choose to view/edit the partitions.
2. In the step partition, modify / create a swap partition.
3. edit logical volume: (depends on whether lvm or not)
  

Actual Results:  Info is requested in order:
mount point:
file system type:
logical volume name:
size:
(size limit text)


Expected Results:  A more logical order is:
file system type:
size:
(size limit text)
mount point:
logical volume name: (since this is auto generated anyway)

Additional info:

While all the info is needed, it makes sense to set first that you want swap / some file system type, then choose where you want it mounted.

{or maybe I'm just weird.}

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2005-12-22 17:03:32 UTC
This is the way it's been for a long time now and I think changing it is likely
to cause more confusion.  We'll take this into consideration, though, when we
rework partitioning some in the future.


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