From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: My experiences with partitioning according to the manual Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 16:18:11 +0200 Message-ID: <87wp4qrf4s.fsf@gnu.org> References: <871sn26hb6.fsf@gnu.org> <19299eb4-6070-7582-cb86-46d30ef3002b@crazy-compilers.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33322) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dvOmb-00008j-6t for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Sep 2017 10:18:22 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dvOma-0003ar-BP for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Sep 2017 10:18:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <19299eb4-6070-7582-cb86-46d30ef3002b@crazy-compilers.com> (Hartmut Goebel's message of "Tue, 19 Sep 2017 15:37:58 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Hartmut Goebel Cc: guix-devel Hi, Hartmut Goebel skribis: > Am 19.09.2017 um 13:47 schrieb Ludovic Court=C3=A8s: >> =E2=80=9Ccfdisk=E2=80=9D (without any arguments) pops up an ncurses inte= rface that=E2=80=99s >> 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 =CC=A3so prob= ably > 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 =E2=80=93 or if this can be ignored si= nce > mkfs will set the correct type anyway (it if does, as I mean to have seen= ). I=E2=80=99m not saying cfdisk has a perfect UI, but the manual does say tha= t the user has to be somewhat familiar with the topic. :-) I think it=E2=80=99s 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=E2=80=99s probably room for improvement, though we chose to not >> (re)document everything about partitioning=E2=80=94it=E2=80=99s somethin= g that belongs >> elsewhere IMO. > > This makes sense. What about linking to the "GNU storage guide" then? As I wrote, that thing doesn=E2=80=99t really exist (actually it=E2=80=99s = jailed on alioth.debian.org.) Help welcome! >>> * How to align the first partition (with parted)? >> I don=E2=80=99t remember having to worry about this. Did you have troub= les? > > 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 =E2=80=98cfdisk=E2=80=99. :-) >> We don=E2=80=99t have the Parted commands because the manual suggests cf= disk.=20 > > 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 =E2=80=98cfdisk=E2=80=99 is the best we can do currently when it co= mes to partitioning, but I=E2=80=99m happy if you have ideas on how to improve the instructions. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.