GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 564645
make "round to cylinders" option (in resize/move dialog) unckecked by default
Last modified: 2009-02-16 23:18:50 UTC
i wanted only a resize, but it also scheduled moving partition. i didn't notice this and had to wait 9 hours till it finishes moving 180gb-long partition 2 mb right. Other information:
Thank you for the report of this problem Nick. It sounds like the root cause of the problem is that you did not know that a MOVE and a resize were going to be performed. The GUI does state that this is what is to occur, but perhaps it could be done differently. I believe the default "ON" setting of "round to cylinders" is the right thing to do for most people. Of course I am open to persuasion too. Perhaps there is a better way to notify when both a MOVE and a RESIZE is going to be performed?
> I believe the default "ON" setting of "round to cylinders" is the right thing to do for most people. when you create new partition or explicitly request move (i.e. change number in the upper field -- this also means that number in upper field should not change automatically, e.g. triggered by change in other fields) -- yes. so my suggestion is to add additional logic to the dialog.
also, add additional message to apply confirmation: when moving partition longer than, say 10 gb, the program should say that it will take ~ GBSIZE*0.3 hours to complete on a usual PC.
Thank you Nick for your suggestions. I will think upon this a while. Perhaps there is an even better solution, we just haven't thought of it yet 8-)
Hi Nick, I have added some additional logic to the resize/move dialog so that if the space before value is unchanged, then the start sector will remain the same. This enhanced logic has been committed to the Gnome SVN repository. Since another similar bug has been logged with a title that is more appropriate to this fix, I am marking this bug as a duplicate. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 571151 ***
thanks.