Bug 67897 - Disk druid requires a mount point for new partitions
Summary: Disk druid requires a mount point for new partitions
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael Fulbright
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-07-03 22:35 UTC by Sean Dilda
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:43 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-07-11 21:35:43 UTC
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Description Sean Dilda 2002-07-03 22:35:07 UTC
Whenever you create a new partition in disk druid, it requires that you have a
mount point for it.

I agree that it should warn you when you forget to put a mount point, but there
should be an option to tell disk druid that you know what you're doing.

There are a variety of reasons to have partitions that you don't want to mount
(including suspend-2-disk partitions), so creating a mount point for them just
means you have to go back later, edit /etc/fstab and do an rmdir, which is annoying.

(on the positive side though, the current scheme does give me an excuse to come
up with interesting mount points such as /jeremyisacrackmonkey)

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2002-07-10 00:38:19 UTC
I've been thinking about changing this behavior...

Comment 2 Michael Fulbright 2003-07-11 21:35:43 UTC
You can also leave free space on the disk by using the partition by cylinder
mode. Just double click on a "Free Space" region and create the partitions you
require which have mount points. Leave space for the special partitions, and go
back with parted and create them.


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