Naming partition does not appear to work

[briansmith0]

Explain what happens

1. On an empty disk, use Cockpit to "Create partition table"
2. Within the free space, "Create partition"
3. Provide a name for the partition ("mypartition" in this example) and "create and mount" partition

4. Within Cockpit, the name shows as "-" where I would expect it to be "mypartition"

5. From the command line, parted also does not show a partition name.

Version of Cockpit

296

Where is the problem in Cockpit?

Storage

Server operating system

Fedora

Server operating system version

38

What browsers are you using?

No response

System log

No response

[martinpitt]

@mvollmer can you please have a look?

[mvollmer]

Yes, this is confusing. The name you give in the creation dialog is for the filesystem and will show up in the "Filesystem" tab, not the "Partition" tab.

Also note that Cockpit let's you change the name of an existing filesystem, but it doesn't let you change the name of an existing partition.

I can think of a couple of things to do:

• Cockpit should not show the names of partitions if it can not set them during creation and can not change them later.

• Creation of partitions and formatting of filesystems could be separated.

  This is how LVM volumes work. Creating a LVM logical volume has so many parameters that cramming that into the Format dialog is too much.

• Formatting with type "No filesystem" could be a separate action.

  We would have "Format" for creating filesystems, and "Erase" for wiping a block device clean. That would make the erase action more discoverable.