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storage: Change order of actions for a blank disk #19888

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garrett opened this issue Jan 25, 2024 · 1 comment
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storage: Change order of actions for a blank disk #19888

garrett opened this issue Jan 25, 2024 · 1 comment

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garrett commented Jan 25, 2024

Creating a partition table on an empty disk should be the default action.

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We might even consider promoting the action to a button, as you really can't do much with a disk by default without creating a partition table (in most cases).

(Without a partition table, you can add a disk to some kinds of RAIDs, such as btrfs. You can also use it for raw storage for a database. But when Cockpit is used in Anaconda, people generally won't be doing that by default. And you could still add a disk with a partition table to RAIDs and such; it'd just remove the partition table if needed, I think, so it shouldn't be harmful even if someone does add one.)

Additionally, it's not "Unformatted data", it's a blank disk. It could say "Unformatted" or "Empty disk" or something like that.

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garrett commented Jan 25, 2024

Related: #19882 (which is a larger PR and has several features in addition to this)

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