Comment 2 for bug 1462632
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| ellie (et1234567) wrote Re: "Editing" unknown partition to LVM to see if LVM is detected instantlzy destroys what was there, "Quit" does not revert | #2 |
Apparently, all dm crypt stuff gets written to disk instantly without the slightest warning. Resize or actually doing the install gives me a big warning popup before it goes to disk though - why this stupid inconsistency that has just cost me a lot of data?
It seems outdated that the installer doesn't use some sort of commit system at all (where no change gets EVER written to disk, and you can first try around and before a final confirm it shows you all steps in all detail). It seems it kinda tries to do that with the formatting and alerting me before it does that, but it doesn't for a lot of other big changes.
Compare Red Hat's anaconda or gparted for how to do this stuff properly - this current half-hearted attempt is just deceiving and user-hating. Do you want people to accidentally lose their data? This is how you make people accidentally lose their data.