calamares/src/modules/partition/README.md

Architecture

PartitionCoreModule

Partition and PartitionInfo

Tests

The module comes with unit tests for the partition jobs. Those tests need to run on a disk, USB stick or whatever storage device which does not contain any data you care about.

To build them:

cd $top_build_dir/src/modules/partitions/tests
make buildtests

To run them you need to define the CALAMARES_TEST_DISK environment variable. It should contain the device path to the test disk. For example, assuming you plugged a test USB stick identified as /dev/sdb, you would run the tests like this:

sudo CALAMARES_TEST_DISK=/dev/sdb $top_build_dir/partitiontests

TODO

• PartitionPreview

  • Show used space
  • Highlight selected partition
  • Make the partitions clickable

• Expose PartitionInfo::format in PartitionModel and add a column for it in the tree view

• Support resizing extended partitions. ResizePartitionJob should already support this but the UI prevents editing of extended partitions for now.