On Sun, 2010-07-04 at 15:41 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > debconf has no facility for adding extra buttons. What about: 1) scan for the device 2) if it's not there print a notice, about that, and whether the user want's to retry, with the buttons yes and no.
> > Is that "- /dev/sda1" intended to be there? > > Yes - in fact none of the others are supposed to be shown as > /dev/disk/by-id/ paths! It's supposed to resolve them all with > 'readlink -f' before display, on the basis that even though by-id is > better for storage most people will be more familiar with traditional > device names. > > What does 'ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/' print? 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 4 16:04 ata-HDT722525DLA380_VDB41BT4CA1GYC -> ../../sda 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jul 4 14:09 ata-HDT722525DLA380_VDB41BT4CA1GYC-part1 -> ../../sda1 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jul 4 14:09 ata-HDT722525DLA380_VDB41BT4CA1GYC-part2 -> ../../sda2 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jul 4 14:09 ata-HDT722525DLA380_VDB41BT4CA1GYC-part3 -> ../../sda3 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 4 14:09 ata-HDT722525DLA380_VDK41BT4CEAXME -> ../../sdb 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jul 4 14:09 ata-HDT722525DLA380_VDK41BT4CEAXME-part1 -> ../../sdb1 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 4 14:09 ata-Hitachi_HDT725025VLAT80_VF1100R1CJ583B -> ../../hda 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jul 4 14:09 ata-Hitachi_HDT725025VLAT80_VF1100R1CJ583B-part1 -> ../../hda1 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jul 4 14:09 ata-Hitachi_HDT725025VLAT80_VF1100R1CJ583B-part2 -> ../../hda2 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jul 4 14:09 ata-Hitachi_HDT725025VLAT80_VF1100R1CJ583B-part3 -> ../../hda3 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jul 4 14:09 ata-Hitachi_HDT725025VLAT80_VF1100R1CJ583B-part4 -> ../../hda4 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 4 16:19 ata-PLEXTOR_DVDR_PX-760A_388602 -> ../../hdb 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 4 14:09 ata-ST3750640AS_5QD03J2N -> ../../sdc 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jul 4 14:09 ata-ST3750640AS_5QD03J2N-part1 -> ../../sdc1 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 4 16:04 scsi-SATA_HDT722525DLA380_VDB41BT4CA1GYC -> ../../sda 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jul 4 14:09 scsi-SATA_HDT722525DLA380_VDB41BT4CA1GYC-part1 -> ../../sda1 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jul 4 14:09 scsi-SATA_HDT722525DLA380_VDB41BT4CA1GYC-part2 -> ../../sda2 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jul 4 14:09 scsi-SATA_HDT722525DLA380_VDB41BT4CA1GYC-part3 -> ../../sda3 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 4 14:09 scsi-SATA_HDT722525DLA380_VDK41BT4CEAXME -> ../../sdb 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jul 4 14:09 scsi-SATA_HDT722525DLA380_VDK41BT4CEAXME-part1 -> ../../sdb1 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 4 14:09 scsi-SATA_ST3750640AS_5QD03J2N -> ../../sdc 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jul 4 14:09 scsi-SATA_ST3750640AS_5QD03J2N-part1 -> ../../sdc1 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 4 16:04 wwn-0x5000cca20bc49146 -> ../../sda 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jul 4 14:09 wwn-0x5000cca20bc49146-part1 -> ../../sda1 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jul 4 14:09 wwn-0x5000cca20bc49146-part2 -> ../../sda2 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jul 4 14:09 wwn-0x5000cca20bc49146-part3 -> ../../sda3 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 4 14:09 wwn-0x5000cca20bc611d4 -> ../../sdb 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jul 4 14:09 wwn-0x5000cca20bc611d4-part1 -> ../../sdb1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
