** Description changed:
- Currently the guided methods of the Ubuntu installer only address single
- disk setup. When a user have several disks on his machine he has to use
- the manual partitioning which is prone to failure for inexperienced
- users.
+ [Impact]
+ * Currently the guided methods of the Ubuntu installer only address single
disk setup. When a user have several disks on his machine he has to use the
manual partitioning which is prone to failure for inexperienced users.
+ * It would be useful to understand how many disks are installed on a system
and their size to determine how update the installer to best suit users' needs.
+ * We only report mounted partitions size
+
+ [Test Case]
+ * Install the new version from -proposed
+ * run `ubuntu-report show`
+ -> check that there is a Disks field, corresponding to arrays in GiB of
disk sizes attached to the system. Non spinning disks, ssds or virtual machine
disks are ignored.
+
+
+ [Regression Potential]
+ * As with the rest of ubuntu-report code, any error results in an empty, and
so ommitted field. We report as many valid values as possible and discare
invalid ones.
+ * Backed up via a lot of new and existing tests, checking corner cases like
no valid size/number of block, empty size/number of block file, missing partial
informations from the kernel, ignoring loop and other random devices…
+
+ ____
+
+
+ Currently the guided methods of the Ubuntu installer only address single disk
setup. When a user have several disks on his machine he has to use the manual
partitioning which is prone to failure for inexperienced users.
It would be useful to understand how many disks are installed on a
system and their size to determine how update the installer to best suit
users' needs.
This information is available from /sys/block/<device>/size . The
information is in blocks. The block size is available from
/sys/block/<device>/queue/{logical|physical}_block_size
For example on my system
$ cat /sys/block/sda/{size,queue/*_block_size}
125045424
512
512
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
Package: ubuntu-report 1.2.0
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-23.25-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Jul 30 14:42:25 2018
Dependencies:
gcc-8-base 8.2.0-1ubuntu2
libc6 2.27-3ubuntu1
libgcc1 1:8.2.0-1ubuntu2
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-07-15 (1476 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Alpha amd64 (20140520)
SourcePackage: ubuntu-report
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to cosmic on 2018-03-24 (127 days ago)
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