[haiku-development] Re: RFC: DriveSetup BikeShed proposal 1
- From: Alexander von Gluck <kallisti5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 08:03:39 -0500
On 02.08.2012 11:40, Ingo Weinhold wrote:
Alexander von Gluck wrote:
Any thoughts on this different layout?
Disk->Format
* Disk->Initialize->Intel Partition Map
* Disk->Initialize->EFI GUID Partition Map
Disk->Eject
Disk->Surface Test
Partition->Create
* Partition->Format->Intel Extended Partition (or leaving it
Initialize->?)
* Partition->Format->Be File System (or leaving it Initialize->?)
Partition->Delete
Partition->Mount
the layout suggests that nesting of partitioning systems will no longer be
possible,
since only the disk could be initialized with one of those. While it isn't
exactly a
common use case, I would regret having no way at all to do that at all.
Nesting partition systems really doesn't make sense however. Given we fully
support
Intel extended partitions, I really don't even see a use for this.
Either way, DriveSetup already has code in it to prevent nesting partition
systems. :)
I'm thinking of removing the option to write a BFS filesystem to a raw disk
(in the
gui at least) I've seen count less you tube videos of people unknowingly
formatting BFS
over a raw disk (which really isn't what they meant to do 100% of the time.
This doesn't *prevent* advanced users from doing this, it just forces them
to use the
command line tools.
Thoughts?
-- Alex
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