Ubiquity attempts resize on mounted partition

[John McCabe-Dansted]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

This bug is loosely related to Bug #89605.

I mounted a partition, changed directory into it from the terminal (so it couldn't be umounted), and attempted to resize the partition in ubiquity. Ubiquity complained that it detected errors on the partition and refused to resize so no data was lost. However I would expect Ubiquity to refuse to even attempt resizing of mounted partitions.

(This bug is against current Hardy snapshot liveCD)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Feb 10 10:29:00 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: ubiquity 1.7.6
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Uname: Linux ubuntu 2.6.24-5-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 24 19:45:21 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

[TerryG (tgalati4)]

Triaged to Incomplete. Did you close the terminal that was locking the partition and try again or try from a fresh boot? I suspect that ubiquity requires unrestricted access to each partition. Having a terminal open and a partition mounted would cause such a restriction.

[TerryG (tgalati4)]

Marking as Confirmed. Reporter makes an important point that partitioner shouldn't attempt to resize/partition mounted file systems. A warning dialog should come up to inform the user that the partition is in use and that it needs to be released before installation can continue.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

The error is "can't resize mounted partition", so this is working correctly.