DietPi-Drive_Manager | Why is it not supported on VM?

[MichaIng]

Why is DietPi-Drive_Manager not supported on VM? Works great with all it's features, at least on my testing VMs. Was there some risk or issue observed?

[Fourdee]

@MichaIng

Was there some risk or issue observed?

It was not compatible pre-v6.x, however, with all the Init and detection improvements to dietpi-drive_manager it should be compatible now.

If you can verify testing, we can enable. My PC has been delayed until next week ☹️

[MichaIng]

@Fourdee
As all my testing and development of the fsck implementation was done on VM, including many times formatting and using the USB stick with all file system types, I think it can be assumed compatible.

But just to be sure, I will redo some tests with virtual drives instead of real ones, add to VM via USB.

🈯️ Verified functionality with virtual disk as well: https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/commit/e3ebdde3bb91ce49a5be5bc21c36d1f4701b942a
- [ ] Found fdisk and mkfs steps are needed for the drives to be recognized by drive manager. Would be nice if we could implement partition table and initial file system creation as well. (=> 6.9)

[Fourdee]

@MichaIng

Legend, many thanks 👍

nice if we could implement partition table and initial file system creation as well. (=> 6.9)

Yep, I've been meaning to do this for a long time 👍, required feature I believe.