Open diskdrake, select empty space on the drive, select "Create" and create a partition. The GUI no longer offers a "Format" option in either normal or expert mode, but if you try to quit gives you a popup saying if you don't format it won't be added to fstab.
CC: (none) => marja11, thierry.vignaudAssignee: bugsquad => pterjanSource RPM: diskdrake => drakxtools
What if you click on another partition tab, then switch back to the new partition?
Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
No effect. The listed choices are Mount Point, Type, Options, Label, Resize, Delete in expert mode, just Mount Point, Resize, Delete in normal mode. Switching to a formatted/mounted partition replaces these with View, Unmount in normal mode, but switching back to the unformatted partition just repaints the ones shown above.
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Probably a side effect of http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx/commit/?id=b772247c03172617edb17f92d9b7b22c09ca9091 I'll check tomorrow
Status: NEW => ASSIGNEDAssignee: pterjan => thierry.vignaud
If you preformat the partitons you want in a rescue system with mkfs.ext4, the installer accepts them and puts up the list of potential disks to format. It then formats them correctly and proceeds with the install.
I closed down diskdrake and then used gparted to format the partition. I then open diskdrake to label and mount it.
CC: (none) => rbcourt
*** Bug 19773 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Indeed it's that commit. Fixing in progress
commit 84405a3bde840a526b4bea650fbe69963a900ef5 Author: Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud@...> Date: Mon Nov 14 16:41:25 2016 +0100 warn when an action condition is bogus (mga#19172) thus showing we were using an unexported function for format test --- Commit Link: http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx/commit/?id=84405a3bde840a526b4bea650fbe69963a900ef5
commit 1a0d446cbcb09c770ad9c341b8f88698bb7339ad Author: Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud@...> Date: Tue Nov 15 07:55:37 2016 +0100 fix being unable to format a newly part (mga#19172) previous test was using an unexported function as a side effect, we now correctly offer to format a unmounted partition (eg: when using "noauto" option in /etc/fstab) --- Commit Link: http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx/commit/?id=1a0d446cbcb09c770ad9c341b8f88698bb7339ad
Fixed in git
Status: ASSIGNED => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => FIXED