Description:

In the Prepare Hard Drive/Set Mount Points section, it is moderately easy to make a mistake if one is unwitting or hasty. Consider this situation (which happened to me earlier):

I created a new partition with cfdisk which was between two other preexisting partitions. I naively expected that the order of the partition labels in /dev (/sd[xx]) would be updated to run according to the physical order of the partitions. When it came to choosing the mount point for /, I chose the wrong one, and the rest is history!

I have an idea that might help prevent this from happening in the future. There is a confirmation dialog that looks like this:

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| Would you like to create a filesystem on /dev/sda3?
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| (This will overwrite existing data!)
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| yes no
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There is enough free space in the above dialog to give some simple information about the partition, such as the current filesystem, how much free space the partition has, the partition label if it has one, something that might prompt the user into reconsidering their decision.

I don't mean to pretend that my small loss was worth anyone's time to implement this, but perhaps it might be a good feature to prevent it happening again, and make the installer a little more newbie freindly as well.


Additional info:
* package version(s)

arch 2008 06 core img

* config and/or log files etc.

Steps to reproduce:
Outlined above