Am 13. Juli 2026 20:14:11 MESZ schrieb Pascal Hambourg <[email protected]>:
>After giving some more thought, I think we can do better without breaking any
>sensible use case.
>
>There are 3 possible situations regarding the source installation media:
>- the entire disk is mounted
>- a partition is mounted and seen by parted
>- a partition is mounted and unseen by parted (because it considers the
>partition table in installation/live ISOhybrid images invalid for various
>legitimate reasons)
>
>For all partitioning modes:
>- if the entire disk is mounted -> skip the disk
>- if a partition is mounted and unseen by parted -> skip the disk
>"Skip" means that the disk will not be visible nor usable for partitioning.
>
>For manual partitioning:
>- lock the mounted partition
>"Lock" means that the partition is visible but altering or deleting it or
>creating a new partition table on its disk is prohibited. This is an existing
>feature designed to protect RAID members and physical volumes for LVM and
>encryption, but AFAICS the lock is checked only in manual partitioning.
>
>For automatic partitioning using an entire disk:
>- skip the disk with a mounted partition
>"Skip" means that the disk is not added to the available disk list.
>
>For automatic partitioning using the largest free space:
>- nothing more to do, an unusable disk would already be skipped by the general
>checks for all partitioning modes.
>
>Opinions ?
Sounds really smart to me.
If you get that cleanly implemented: +1
>> If you have time to adapt the MR like this, and we get a mini.iso out of
>> this, Kevin could test it directly, since he has all the bits ready for such
>> test :-)
>
>I cannot make any promises for the near future. Persistent heat drains all my
>energy...
No problem. Climat change is more and more coming to day life ...
Holger
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