Bug 17029 - diskdrake does not allow to reformat/choose between MBR or GPT partition table
Summary: diskdrake does not allow to reformat/choose between MBR or GPT partition table
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal enhancement
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Pascal Terjan
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Reported: 2015-10-27 09:38 CET by Florian Hubold
Modified: 2015-11-13 20:14 CET (History)
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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


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