On Sun, 2026-07-12 at 11:07 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > Am 12. Juli 2026 08:25:51 MESZ schrieb Pascal Hambourg > <[email protected]>:. >> I had opened a merge request against partman-base [1] to skip a drive if >> mounted on /cdrom or /hd-media, but put it on hold after considering that it >> might break some (admittedly edge) use cases. Maybe that check should apply >> only to automatic partitioning ?
Excluding the installation media from partitioning sounds like a great idea to me. I think it would reduce confusion, especially for new users, reduce the risk of breakage due to installing to the wrong drive/partition, and reduce the mental burden a little for most users. > Sounds like a good compromise to me... > > And most probably the best we can do here. Is that because it would be difficult to exclude the installation media partition without excluding the whole drive, in order to support the use case of installing to another partition on the same drive? Another idea: Could we exclude the drive with installation media if its only partition is the installer? Or if the drive is removable media? > If you have time to adapt the MR like this, and we get a mini.iso out of > this, Kevin could test it directly, since he has all the bits ready for such > test :-) Absolutely! I'd be happy to. ;) Cheers, Kevin
