Bug 18269 - bad usability of the dialog for creating/labelling/mounting partitions
Summary: bad usability of the dialog for creating/labelling/mounting partitions
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 11668
Alias: None
Product: ALT Linux Desktop
Classification: Distributions
Component: installer (show other bugs)
Version: 4.1.0
Hardware: all Linux
: P2 normal
Assignee: Anton V. Boyarshinov
QA Contact: Andrey Cherepanov
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Depends on: 11668
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Reported: 2008-12-20 22:12 MSK by Ivan Zakharyaschev
Modified: 2011-07-19 23:46 MSK (History)
1 user (show)

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Description Ivan Zakharyaschev 2008-12-20 22:12:48 MSK
In the 4.1 Desktop installer, the dialog for partitions+filesystems proceeds in (at least) 3 steps: 

1) on the first screen, one specifies the size (among other things)
2) on the second screen, one can enter a label (among other things) ("Создать файловую систему" > "Параметры" > "Метка тома")
3) on another following screen, one is suggested a mountpoint (among other things).

This division is quite inconvenient: this order is not logical. 

The logic should be: first, one decides which part of the filesystem tree one wants to store on the partition being created (i.e., decides on the mountpoint). *Depending on this*, one decides on the size and on the label.

Also, the installer does a good job for a newby: it suggests the mountpoints for newly created partitions in a reasonable order (except for swap, see the other bugreport). 

But this feature turns out to be useless: the person must see beforehand which mountpoint is suggested for the partition he is creating in order to make a reasonable size and a reasonable label (and a reasonable filesystem type).

I suggest to select the mountpoint (and to show the suggested mountpoint) as the first thing in the partition+filesystem creation dialog.
Comment 1 Ivan Zakharyaschev 2008-12-21 04:56:40 MSK
(In reply to comment #0)

> Also, the installer does a good job for a newby: it suggests the mountpoints for newly created partitions in a reasonable order (except for
> swap, see the other bugreport). 

https://bugzilla.altlinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18268
Comment 2 Ivan Zakharyaschev 2008-12-21 04:57:18 MSK

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 11668 ***
Comment 3 Ivan Zakharyaschev 2008-12-21 04:59:24 MSK
(The presence of this feature in the installer depends on the implementation of this feature in alterator.)
Comment 4 Michael Shigorin 2011-07-19 23:46:01 MSK
Это не к инсталеру, а исключительно к alterator-vm.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 11668 ***