Bug 16912

Summary: Mention partition type and/or mount point in the "formatting /dev/sdaX" message
Product: Mageia Reporter: Rémi Verschelde <rverschelde>
Component: InstallerAssignee: Mageia tools maintainers <mageiatools>
Status: ASSIGNED --- QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Low CC: luke.nukem.jones, thierry.vignaud
Version: Cauldron   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Source RPM: drakx-installer-stage2 CVE:
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Description Rémi Verschelde 2015-10-06 19:11:12 CEST 
This is strictly an enhancement proposal.

Whenever I do an upgrade using the installer, I almost get a mini heart-attack when I see "partitioning /dev/sda5" for a very short time even though I made sure _not_ to partition anything.

The reason is just that /dev/sda5 is my swap partition, and gets formatted regardless of what is done for other partitions.

To prevent this kind of discomfort, I wondered if we could mention the partition type and/or the mount point in this message, so that it would be clear that no important data partition is being formatted. WDYT?

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Steps to Reproduce:
Rémi Verschelde 2015-10-06 19:11:23 CEST

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud

Comment 1 Samuel Verschelde 2015-10-07 10:19:39 CEST 
s/partitioning/formatting/ I suppose :)
Comment 2 Rémi Verschelde 2015-10-07 10:23:29 CEST 
(In reply to Samuel VERSCHELDE from comment #1)
> s/partitioning/formatting/ I suppose :)

Indeed :)

Summary: Mention partition type and/or mount point in the "partitioning /dev/sdaX" message => Mention partition type and/or mount point in the "formatting /dev/sdaX" message

Luke Jones 2015-12-03 10:28:41 CET

CC: (none) => luke.nukem.jones
Assignee: bugsquad => luke.nukem.jones

Luke Jones 2015-12-03 11:00:28 CET

Status: NEW => ASSIGNED

Rémi Verschelde 2016-05-28 15:57:15 CEST

Assignee: luke.nukem.jones => pkg-bugs

Comment 3 Thierry Vignaud 2016-05-30 18:55:49 CEST 
Well, the message is usually very shord lived and anyway once you see it, it's too late so I don't see the point in adding this...
Moreover you were asked for just before

Priority: Normal => Low

Comment 4 Rémi Verschelde 2016-05-30 19:35:01 CEST 
Well it's low priority indeed, but for me a short-lived message that gives me the feeling that it's wiping out my precious data is an annoyance (and an unwanted adrenaline bump).

The current behaviour isn't bad per se, but it doesn't mean that we can't improve it :)
Rémi Verschelde 2017-07-24 18:42:07 CEST

Assignee: pkg-bugs => mageiatools