Flight 6: Espresso selects the wrong root partition

[Martin Bergner]

My harddisk setup:

hda1 56GB, Dapper, wanted to keep that one
hda2 2GB Bios hidden
hda3 15GB, Dapper installion taget
hda5 2 GB, swap

I started up espresso, deleted hda3, recreated it with ext2. As a normal user, I expect dapper to install in that partition (since I created it and it is surely free).
However, Espresso selected /dev/hda1 as default, and wanted to format it.
Seriously, it there is an empty partition, don't format an existing one!

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Fair point. At the moment the code just selects the biggest ext3 partition; it should prefer partitions that were just created in gparted.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

espresso (0.99.48) dapper; urgency=low

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Make the intro message a bit less scary, and make it clear that this is
    a beta release.
  * GTK frontend:
    - Set a busy cursor while waiting for debconffiltered subprocesses.
    - If GNOME is installed, reboot properly by telling gdm to reboot and
      then killing the GNOME session (closes: Malone #38027).
  * Consider ext2, jfs, reiserfs, and xfs partitions for the default root
    partition selection as well as ext3 partitions.
  * Stop treating extended partitions as ext3; this just seems dangerously
    wrong.
  * Make the default partition selection prefer partitions that were just
    created in the advanced partitioner (closes: Malone #37581).
  * Remove NoDisplay=true from .desktop files, now that espresso removes
    itself from the target system.
  * Automatic update of included source packages: base-installer
    1.42ubuntu8, kbd-chooser 1.23ubuntu15.

  [ Jonathan Riddell ]
  * Remove gtk from kbd_chooser
  * KDE Frontend:
    - Make widget layout more consistent

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 02:36:53 +0100