Added BlockDevice.largest_free_space and BlockDevice.free_space (iterator). Also added additional supported filesystems to parted. Apparently the online manpages doesn't agree with the local manpages, my previous statement that these gets ignored is false so added those in and removed some that isn't supported by my local manpages, 'ufs' for instance.

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/archinstall/lib/user_interaction.py b/archinstall/lib/user_interaction.py
index 83b85d02..d4275b43 100644
--- a/archinstall/lib/user_interaction.py
+++ b/archinstall/lib/user_interaction.py
@@ -567,6 +567,9 @@ def valid_parted_position(pos :str):
 	if pos[-3:].lower() in ['mib', 'kib', 'b', 'tib'] and pos[:-3].isdigit():
 		return True
 
+	if pos[-2:].lower() in ['kb', 'mb', 'gb', 'tb'] and pos[:-2].isdigit():
+		return True
+
 	return False
 
 def partition_overlap(partitions :list, start :str, end :str) -> bool:
@@ -617,7 +620,7 @@ def manage_new_and_existing_partitions(block_device :BlockDevice) -> dict:
 
 	mountpoints = {}
 	block_device_struct = {
-		"partitions" : []
+		"partitions" : [partition.__dump__() for partition in block_device.partitions.values()]
 	}
 	# Test code: [part.__dump__() for part in block_device.partitions.values()]
 	# TODO: Squeeze in BTRFS subvolumes here
@@ -648,9 +651,18 @@ def manage_new_and_existing_partitions(block_device :BlockDevice) -> dict:
 				# https://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_node/mkpart.html
 				# https://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_node/mklabel.html
 				name = input("Enter a desired name for the partition: ").strip()
+			
 			fstype = input("Enter a desired filesystem type for the partition: ").strip()
-			start = input("Enter the start sector of the partition (percentage or block number, ex: 0%): ").strip()
-			end = input("Enter the end sector of the partition (percentage or block number, ex: 100%): ").strip()
+			
+			start = input(f"Enter the start sector (percentage or block number, default: {block_device.largest_free_space[0]}): ").strip()
+			if not start.strip():
+				start = block_device.largest_free_space[0]
+				end_suggested = block_device.largest_free_space[1]
+			else:
+				end_suggested = '100%'
+			end = input(f"Enter the end sector of the partition (percentage or block number, ex: {end_suggested}): ").strip()
+			if not end.strip():
+				end = end_suggested
 
 			if valid_parted_position(start) and valid_parted_position(end) and valid_fs_type(fstype):
 				if partition_overlap(block_device_struct, start, end):