>> Add to that, that data on an encrypted disk probably haves an huge value. At >> this moment the installer would format it as /home cause it is my biggest >> partition. >> >> Won't report a wish yet, discussion comes first. > > Well, you have better use "Update" and not a "New Installation" in this > case. However, I've asked a maintainer of the partitioner package what > does he think of that. > > Partitioner, as it is now, is a very-well done considering the unseen > layer (e.g., API), on the other hand, dialogs need to be changed to > match our needs better. This is work in progress...
Question: Thomas, what do you think of this request? Thomas' reply: Nothing, since proposal does not know anything about content of a partition it cannot fulfil such requests. It is simply impossible to determine a encrypted partition from a partition containing random data, otherwise the encryption would be weak. Asking questions during proposal generation is not an option. See also bugzilla #203858, which requests similar functionality. Such things (not formatting /home, recognizing root partition) can and will of course be part of the LVM based proposal where one can use the LV name to determine what a LV is used for, but one cannot decide such things just from device name and filesystem type.
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