[Bug 113715] Re: Partition tool in installer refreshes unnecessarily
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 89357 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/89357 A similar problem exists with the external drive. Want to have when run over a scanner it is the drive and mount the partition Realize that any change impossible -- Partition tool in installer refreshes unnecessarily https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/113715 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 113715] Re: Partition tool in installer refreshes unnecessarily
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 89357 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/89357 I'm gathering partitioner rescan slowness bugs as bug 89357. ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 89357 Editing partitions is slow -- Partition tool in installer refreshes unnecessarily https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/113715 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 113715] Re: Partition tool in installer refreshes unnecessarily
Stéphane: Previous versions of ubiquity did use GParted. Colin explains why this was changed in his comment on 2007-05-23. -- Partition tool in installer refreshes unnecessarily https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/113715 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 113715] Re: Partition tool in installer refreshes unnecessarily
Instead of discovering the weel again, why not replacing this tool by a link to gparted or qtparted? -- Partition tool in installer refreshes unnecessarily https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/113715 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 113715] Re: Partition tool in installer refreshes unnecessarily
If I didn't already think this was a major concern, I would not have set this bug's importance to High. There is no need to post further comments on this bug trying to convince us that it is important. -- Partition tool in installer refreshes unnecessarily https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/113715 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 113715] Re: Partition tool in installer refreshes unnecessarily
I understand that this is a very critical aspect of the installation and all care possible must be taken for users not to mess up theirs disks completely. However, I just made an installation and after frustratingly waiting more than three minutes after every change I made (even something unharmful as changing mountpoints), I ended up closing ubiquity, firing up parted, repartitioning and then going back to ubiquity to install (after yet two more system-wide filesystem scans). I really think this is a major concern for the installer, specially as scanning multiple times the filesystems is not really critical. -- Partition tool in installer refreshes unnecessarily https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/113715 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 113715] Re: Partition tool in installer refreshes unnecessarily
I agree that ubiquity's partitioner needs to be optimised. Some of this is just slowness in partman, although some of the places where ubiquity currently asks partman for information could be (carefully!) hardcoded in ubiquity. Ubiquity's former use of GParted was not only confusing, but also wrong in ways that sometimes resulted in serious data loss and were fundamentally extremely hard to fix in place. I hope it's clear why my first priority in writing the new partitioner was correctness rather than speed. You aren't quite accurate that there is no reason to refresh the partition view. The reason refreshes happen at the moment is that, even though the partitions aren't necessarily changing, the available options for each partition may well change: for instance, changing the type of a partition to fat32 means that it can no longer be mounted on /. These options are generated by code that's (intentionally!) common to the alternate and desktop installers, and running it involves calling out to refresh the partition view. I do absolutely concede that it is not done efficiently at the moment, and that it would be possible to (a) refresh in fewer circumstances, (b) refresh fewer partitions, (c) speed up refreshes. I hope we'll be able to work on this in Gutsy. ** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = High Status: Unconfirmed = Confirmed -- Partition tool in installer refreshes unnecessarily https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/113715 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 113715] Re: Partition tool in installer refreshes unnecessarily
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage . I have classified this bug as a bug in debian-installer ** Changed in: debian-installer (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: None = debian-installer -- Partition tool in installer refreshes unnecessarily https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/113715 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 113715] Re: Partition tool in installer refreshes unnecessarily
Thanks, but this issue affects the GUI installer, not the alternate CD. I'm still not sure what the correct package should be, but I don't think debian-installer is correct. ** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: debian-installer = ubiquity -- Partition tool in installer refreshes unnecessarily https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/113715 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
