#15634: [DriveSetup] add Format partition checkbox to Create partition dialog
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Reporter: diver | Owner: stippi
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: Applications/DriveSetup | Version: R1/Development
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Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by pulkomandy):
The filesystem initialization dialog cannot be skipped completely. You
have to select the block size and decide wether to enable queries or not.
There are really two different steps and each with different options and
dialogs possible:
1) creating the partition. Which is different on MBR vs GPT disks
2) initializing, which is different in BFS, FAT, NTFS, etc.
I don't think it's easy to completely merge the two steps then. An
"assisted" mode as is found in typical Linux installers would be nice and
solve a lot of the confusion. Something like "I don't care, wipe
everything from the disk and set it up however you want". But we should
keep the existing dialogs for more advanced cases.
However, creating a partition and then not formatting it is quite useless,
so chaining partition creation and initialization would make sense. Except
there is currently no way to map a partition type (which is only
informative and only exists for MBR anyway) to a filesystem, so we should
add that too.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/15634#comment:3>
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