Editing partitions is slow
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
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Medium
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: ubiquity
I am testing Herd5, though the issue is not new...
Probably because I have 9 partitions to look after, and probably because I use Ubiquity a lot ;-) to test the advanced partitioner mostly, I get more and more annoyed at the slowness of the partitioner. That is, for each and every partition, no matter what I do on it (disable it, or select a mount point, or format it), it takes a little while to complete the operation, and also pops up a "Scanning disks" progress bar".
I can understand that it needs to scan the hard drives when launching the partitioner, obviously, but why does it need to scan them 20 times ? If I select a mount point or tick the "format" check box, why does it need to scan the disks all the time ?
It's particularly annoying, considering that the text installer, which I thought now was the new base of the graphical installer, IS NOT slow, nor does it pop up any progress bat or anything.
Here is hoping you can do some magic in time for the final release ! ;o)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Fix Released → Confirmed |
Yeah, it's due to the way we drive the underlying partitioning code, which I haven't yet optimised. I hope to get some time to do this before Feisty releases. Basically, it's slow because in order to figure out what to display on the partition list screen we need to navigate through many different screens of the underlying text installer.