Josh Triplett wrote: > If the user has only one disk, and chooses to do guided partitioning, > then they have to choose which of their one disk they want to partition. > The very next question (for the partitioning scheme) then confirms this > by saying "Selected for partitioning:" followed by the exact name asked > for in the previous question. The following question then confirms the > generated partitioning scheme (and displays the exact disk name again), > and the question after that confirms one more time that the user wants > to write the changes to the disk. Thus, I think it seems entirely safe > to default to the one-and-only disk if no other disk exists, given that > the user will still get multiple chances to review and confirm their > choice.
FWIW, I tend to agree with this reasoning. It think it's likely that the current situation is a historical accident. It may be a vestigial organ from the time when partman did not include RAID and LVM setup, or from before udev and /sys were used to determine human readable device names. Patch attached (untested) & committed to people/joey branch. -- see shy jo
commit 28874286bb690e8a3d48954c60031623acbbfb8a
Author: Joey Hess <j...@kitenet.net>
Date: Sun Feb 6 14:04:10 2011 -0400
bypass select_disk prompt when there is only one disk
diff --git a/lib/auto-shared.sh b/lib/auto-shared.sh
index 3d9e66a..b3fc054 100644
--- a/lib/auto-shared.sh
+++ b/lib/auto-shared.sh
@@ -236,6 +236,12 @@ select_auto_disk() {
DEVS=$(get_auto_disks)
[ -n "$DEVS" ] || return 1
+ if ! echo "$DEVS" | grep -q '[[:space:]]'; then
+ # only one choice
+ db_set partman-auto/select_disk "$DEVS"
+ echo "$DEVS"
+ return 0
+ fi
debconf_select critical partman-auto/select_disk "$DEVS" "" || return 1
echo "$RET"
return 0
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