On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:23:54 +0100
Miguel Figueiredo <el...@debianpt.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> [...]
> It took more then 24 hours for the encryption
> > process to go through and wipe the drive. (At least that is what I
> > think it was doing.) Minimum there should be a warning about this,
> > and ideally it would be nice to skip it with the option of doing it
> > manually (for non-root partitions) later.
>
> hitting cancel while the partition it's being wiped, skips the
> exhaustive wipe and jumps to the next step of the installation.
>
> BTW, this suggestion seems to be the same as in #678015.
Yes, that is exactly the same issue. And note the author said:
I noticed the "Cancel" button after a few hours, but because I
was unsure of what exactly it would cancel, and whether it was
a required or optional step of the process, I opted not to
risk wasting all the time already invested and didn't cancel
anything.
If one does not know what exactly the thing is doing, and what the
consequences of hitting cancel might be, I (for one) would not be
inclined to risk losing hours of install time hitting cancel and then
having to start all over again.
Of course, I know different now, but the average user who does this on
a big drive for the first time will not.
Clayton
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