Added two new functions. partition.safe_to_format() and partition.has_content(). The first does some sanity checks to verify if we can format the partition or not. The second temporarly mounts the parition and checks if there's content inside and returns accordingly.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/examples/guided.py b/examples/guided.py
index b289016b..fc1fe88d 100644
--- a/examples/guided.py
+++ b/examples/guided.py
@@ -281,8 +281,10 @@ with archinstall.Filesystem(archinstall.arguments['harddrive'], archinstall.GPT)
 			fs.use_entire_disk(archinstall.arguments.get('filesystem', 'ext4'))
 	else:
 		for partition in archinstall.arguments['harddrive']:
-			if partition.allow_formatting:
+			if partition.allow_formatting and partition.safe_to_format():
 				partition.format()
+			else:
+				archinstall.log(f"Did not format {partition} because .safe_to_format() returned False or .allow_formatting was False", level=archinstall.LOG_LEVELS.Debug)
 
 	if archinstall.arguments.get('!encryption-password', None):
 		# First encrypt and unlock, then format the desired partition inside the encrypted part.