On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 08:53:30AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Sebastian Ley] > > I know that will be difficult, but as Tollef stated we need a progress > > indicator for mkfs. If nothing happens when formatting a large partition > > the lowbrow user might believe d-i crashed or something... > > If we use libparted 1.6 for filesystem generation, it should be able > to supply progress information.
libparted can only create ext[23], *fat and reiserfs, right? The advantage of the current method is that it's very easy to drop in other file system types, since all partconf does, is cross-check /proc/filesystems and /sbin/mkfs.* /Martin -- Martin Sjögren [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +46 (0)31 7490880 Cell: +46 (0)739 169191 GPG key: http://www.strakt.com/~martin/gpg.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
