Partitioning message on not enough diskspace is confusing

[Dirk-Willem van Gulik]

Install of ubuntu-8.04-desktop-amd64

When installing Ubuntu on a disk which is too small (e.g. 2.1Gbyte) -- all goes fine throughout the guided install up until you hit the point where the partition is made. Then the message:

  "Some of the Partitions you created are too small .... if you do not go back to... installation may fail".

This is not quite as helpful as it could be - i.e. one could detect a disk which is too small earlier; or use a different message as in effect you are in guided partitioning - so none of those suggestions make sense.

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[Patrick Kilgore (patrick-kilgore)]

Sounds like a good idea, although I would take this time to point out that most software has "minimal requirements" and users are used to the idea that they shouldn't be installing files that are too big for their hard-drive. Fixing this would certainly help make Ubuntu easier to use. That being said, I don't know why 2.1 GB isn't big enough, considering I have a copy of gutsy running off a 2 GB flash drive with some room to spare.

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

It seems that bug 216688 is a dupe of this, although slightly different. There the user has misinterpreted the error as suggesting they need a 1.5 TB (rather than 1.5GiB) /usr partition. Reporting the needed size in bytes seems unnecessarily unfriendly, and it would be better if this information was presented by the partitioner, when the user can easily and obviously do something about it.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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