Hi, Hartmut Goebel <[email protected]> skribis:
> Am 19.09.2017 um 13:47 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: >> “cfdisk” (without any arguments) pops up an ncurses interface that’s >> reasonably easy to use, at least for someone already familiar with >> partitioning. >> >> What makes you think that it expects a script? > > It asked me for a script. I just tried again and it did not ̣so probably > I did something wrong. > > Nevertheless I had trouble using cfdisk, as I wrote to Danny this > morning (as part of my feedback on the installer). Most important: > cfdisk offers too many and non-obvious options for partition types. The > manual ought to state which to use – or if this can be ignored since > mkfs will set the correct type anyway (it if does, as I mean to have seen). I’m not saying cfdisk has a perfect UI, but the manual does say that the user has to be somewhat familiar with the topic. :-) I think it’s a reasonable assumption at this point, though we should eventually work towards making it easier for people coming to GNU/Linux altogether in the future. >> There’s probably room for improvement, though we chose to not >> (re)document everything about partitioning—it’s something that belongs >> elsewhere IMO. > > This makes sense. What about linking to the "GNU storage guide" then? As I wrote, that thing doesn’t really exist (actually it’s jailed on alioth.debian.org.) Help welcome! >>> * How to align the first partition (with parted)? >> I don’t remember having to worry about this. Did you have troubles? > > Yes, when using parted and I wanted to add a partition starting at > sector 0. cfdisk did not ask for a start and aligned it automatically. So use ‘cfdisk’. :-) >> We don’t have the Parted commands because the manual suggests cfdisk. > > That's okay, but the manual mentions parted to set the efi flag. And > since I had trouble with cfdisk, I used parted. Yeah, understood. I think ‘cfdisk’ is the best we can do currently when it comes to partitioning, but I’m happy if you have ideas on how to improve the instructions. Thanks, Ludo’.
