Le Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 11:59:35AM -0400, Joey Hess �crivait: > There seems to be quite a lot of overlap between partkit and > autopartkit. I guess the former gives more control, and the latter > figures it all out for you (and can resize fat partitions). So we > probably want both, but for the immediate goal of getting d-i to work, > which should we focus on?
As you mention, they serve different purposes, so a choice is difficult. If you want a newbie friendly partitioner which work only with common setup, use autopartkit but : - it won't work on non-i386 afaik - you can't decide anything (size of partitions are calculated according to the free space) > this couldn't be broken off into a third udeb, call it partselect, that > handles picking the partitions. Or maybe it would make better sense to > merge the two code trees into one that builds 2 udebs, or to split it > off into a static library, or completly merge them, and offer the user > the ability to autopartition or manually partition each device in turn. > Thoughts? Anyway there are several tasks (actually my autoparkit do them all (without asking anything though)) : - resizing partitions (autopartkit does only resize FAT) - creating partitions in the free space (that may have be liberated by the previous resize) (autoparkit create a fixed number of partitions and calculate the size automatically) - choosing the mount point and mounting them on /target/mountpoint - writing /target/etc/fstab We need to find a framework to have those steps integrate each other. An expert mode would let the user control everything while a newbie mode would use an "autopartkit" like module that'd give hints for the mount points to the module in charge of writing /etc/fstab and mounting partitions. You can also note that the resizing/creating partitions is optional, one may want to reinstall over a preexisting system. Cheers, -- Rapha�l Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Le bouche � oreille du Net : http://www.beetell.com Naviguer sans se fatiguer � chercher : http://www.deenoo.com Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
