Cyril Brulebois, le ven. 23 avril 2021 23:36:24 +0200, a ecrit: > Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org> (2021-04-23): > > I don't have any particular pointer beyond stackoverflow > > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/520231/what-are-nvme-namespaces-how-do-they-work > > > > Basically they are a hardware-level partitioning, before the well-known > > software partitioning: /dev/nvme0n1p1 is device 0, namespace 1, > > partition 1. > > > > > (My only experience was a fresh install on an NVMe device replacing an > > > aging SSD, and I haven't had to do anything specific.) > > > > I guess usually NVMe are shipped with a default namespace spanning the > > whole disk, but that could be not always true. > > OK. Would we expect to have something in the installation guide > documenting how to create a namespace if there are none? Or would you > like to implement a change in d-i to handle that in the regular debconf > question flow?
Ideally we could have questions in d-i, but that seems quite involved for a probably very rare need. We can however easily add a note about the nvme manual commands in the guide, yes. Samuel
