Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Tags: d-i I've recently tried the weekly built netinst image of Debian Installer to install Wheezy on a computer with a hard disk of 640 GB. I wanted to experiment with encripted volumes, so to get an idea of what could be a sensible setup, I tried the guided partitioning option for encripted LVM. I just wanted to see what was Debian's recipe for that setup before coming up with my own.
Unfortunately, the installer decided to erase (very thoroughly I learned too late) all data on the newly created 632 GB volume it, which took roughly 26 hours. Had I been asked, I would have chosen no to wipe out the volume, because no sensitive information was previously there, just the proprietary pre-installed operating system that I never intended to use, but came with the computer anyway. Besides, even for sensitive information, a 26 hour-long erasing on an average hardware, with no prior notice or confirmation is IMHO not what the installer should do. Please consider: a) changing the erase algorithm for someting more expeditive, even at the expense of some effectiveness; b) asking the user if she actually wants to erase the contents of the newly created volume; c) warning the user that the erasing could take more than 1 day. Thank you. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=es_AR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_AR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120618164023.11203.67584.report...@test.smc
