Bug#368633: partman: LVM automatic partitioning not undoable

2006-05-25 Thread Joey Hess
I've temporarily reworded the partman-auto template to not claim that actions can be undone, but it would be nice if p-a-l could be fixed to act like the rest of partman and confirm before touching disk. If that change is made, the partman-auto template can be reverted to the old wording. In the

Bug#368633: partman: LVM automatic partitioning not undoable

2006-05-24 Thread ERIIX M. Blaike
On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 12:04 +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 09:37:18PM -0700, ERIIX M. Blaike wrote: On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 21:54 +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: Please tell us more about what you did. snip/ 2: In the guided partitioning, choose Erase entire disk and

Bug#368633: partman: LVM automatic partitioning not undoable

2006-05-24 Thread Geert Stappers
# _That_ is the problem -- it specifically says the operation can be # undone when it cannot. The massage there was created before LVM was # included as a guided partitioning option and has not been changed to # reflect the new reality -- the inability to undo the partitioning if # you do not

Bug#368633: partman: LVM automatic partitioning not undoable

2006-05-24 Thread Joey Hess
The text in question is this: This installer can guide you through partitioning a disk for use by Debian, or if you prefer, you can do it manually. If you do choose to use the guided partitioning tool, you will still have a chance later to see the results, customise it, and even undo the

Bug#368633: partman: LVM automatic partitioning not undoable

2006-05-24 Thread ERIIX Blaike
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 02:39:33PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: it's easy to see how this would be confusing. I think the best thing would be for partman-auto-lvm to display the partman-lvm/confirm message before touching the disk here. That's much better than my suggestion since it doesn't require

Bug#368633: partman: LVM automatic partitioning not undoable

2006-05-23 Thread Eric Monson
Package: partman Severity: critical Justification: causes serious data loss I burned a D-I image for a friend (the latest weekly Debian CD as of Mar 12 15:12) and chose to play with it a bit to see if it was clearly broken in some obvious way or likely okay for out purposes. Once I had verified

Bug#368633: partman: LVM automatic partitioning not undoable

2006-05-23 Thread Geert Stappers
Tags 368633 moreinfo Stop On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 09:14:55AM -0700, Eric Monson wrote: Package: partman Severity: critical Justification: causes serious data loss I burned a D-I image for a friend (the latest weekly Debian CD as of Mar Please confirm that you mean 'MaY' (and not 'MaRch')

Bug#368633: partman: LVM automatic partitioning not undoable

2006-05-23 Thread ERIIX M. Blaike
On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 21:54 +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: Please confirm that you mean 'MaY' (and not 'MaRch') Sorry. Timestamp from the wrong iso. May 14 16:24 is the timestamp from the one in question. Please tell us more about what you did. I played around some in the disc, but the