[MASTER] ubiquity should warn users about unusable mounted partitions
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Evan |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: ubiquity
From #ubuntu-installer:
<evand> cjwatson: do you recall why we decided to filter all disks with mounted partitions from parted_devices rather than just /cdrom?
It seems to be creating a headache for a number of users, and I'm wondering if we should try to unmount the partitions in question, then try again, or filter less out.
<cjwatson> evand: because if any partition is mounted on a disk then you can't tell the kernel to reread its partition table. We added partman/
<evand> oh, of course
<cjwatson> I think this is a bit of a lose-lose situation
<evand> Ugly, but perhaps a dialog warning them that they wont see the following disks because they have mounted partitions
<cjwatson> or a question asking them whether they want to unmount those partitions or not; of course they may have documents open on them ...
feels like perhaps the sort of thing that should be done in ubiquity rather than partman-base
in d-i it's much less likely that partitions will be mounted
<evand> indeed
<cjwatson> no objection to ameliorating the lose-lose on either side of course :-)
Following this, we should move the partition filtering into ubiquity and wrap it in a debconf question that asks if the user wants the installer to try and unmount the partitions that will be filtered out before continuing.
Changed in ubiquity: | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → evand |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
this seems to be a duplicate of Bug #290415