Bug 17029

Summary:	diskdrake does not allow to reformat/choose between MBR or GPT partition table
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Florian Hubold <doktor5000>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Pascal Terjan <pterjan>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	alien, anaselli, doktor5000, marja11, thierry.vignaud
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	drakxtools	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Florian Hubold 2015-10-27 09:38:07 CET

Description of problem:

Currently diskdrake only allows to create partitions, even in expert mode it does not offer to re-format a disk from MBR to GPT partition table or vice-versa.

From what I understood, the UEFI support that was added to installer should imply that diskdrake is able to create partitions on GPT disks, and it should also be able to create a GPT partition table for UEFI installation on a blank disk, right?


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Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2015-11-11 14:47:09 CET

Assigning to and CC'ing our diskdrake + drakxtools maintainers and CC'ing their manatools colleagues

CC: (none) => alien, anaselli, marja11, thierry.vignaud
Assignee: bugsquad => pterjan

Comment 2 Angelo Naselli 2015-11-12 19:02:07 CET

Maarten how's going on your disk manager tool implementation?

Comment 3 Thierry Vignaud 2015-11-13 13:06:49 CET

This has nothing to do with UEFI.
I don't see the need for switching between MBR & GPT for general users.
For rare usage, people can use gparted.
And anyway, with most new discs not being usable with MBR due to their size, this is not really an issue

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX

Comment 4 Florian Hubold 2015-11-13 20:14:24 CET

For clarification - so e.g. for a fresh installation in UEFI mode on a disk bigger then 2TB it will be formatted via GPT by the installer, but diskdrake itself will not be able to do that? Sorry does not make much sense to me, but so be it.

CC: (none) => doktor5000