Rescue mode should not force partition mounting
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Baltix |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
rescue (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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rescue (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Colin Watson |
Bug Description
I booted in the rescue mode to resize the partition that Hoary Hedgehog Preview
created ( aside: the installer told me it would give me the chance to review the
partition structure it came up with, but then went ahead and created it without
asking for explicit confirmation that the partition structure was as I wanted ).
The rescue mode forced me to choose which partition to mount. But I didn't want
to mount any partitions. The whole purpose in using the rescue mode was to NOT
mount /dev/hda1 so that I could resize it. I suppose I could try mounting one
of the other partitions ( like the swap partition ) as root but this is very
counter-intuitive. / should be mounted as a ram-disk by default and then other
partitions should be optionally mounted as well.
Changed in rescue: | |
assignee: | kamion → nobody |
status: | Unconfirmed → Confirmed |
Changed in rescue: | |
assignee: | nobody → kamion |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
Changed in rescue: | |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
Changed in baltix: | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Rescue mode wasn't designed with this use case in mind. It seems like a
reasonable request, so perhaps it can be extended to do this in the future,
although you'd probably have to do the partition editing with parted rather than
the partition manager in the installer.