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bug#57232: [installer] ENTER in guided partitioner destroys partition ta
From: |
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice |
Subject: |
bug#57232: [installer] ENTER in guided partitioner destroys partition table |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Aug 2022 18:55:05 +0200 |
Hi Mathieu!
Mathieu Othacehe 写道:
What that does is immediately and without confirmation wipe the
on-disc
partition table. And its back-up.
Oops, glad you were able to recover, I was also bitten in the
past.
My mistake for insisting on a bare metal test without a throwaway
machine handy :-)
The attached patch adds an extra confirmation page before wiping
everything, WDYT?
Code looks all right. I'll try it out. Thanks!
The help text for users reads, in part:
“You can change a disk's partition table by selecting it and
pressing ENTER.”
Er, I was… expecting that to mean it would pop up a pretty window
or something. Is this really a feature? Should it be?
I have to be honest: I was extremely let down by the installer UX,
*because* I read a lot of the code and can see how much effort
went into it. I hate pointing out that the partitioner is at once
less useful and more dangerous than (system "fdisk").
:-/,
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