Allows maximum partition size larger than free space

[Paul Sladen]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Originally I started with a partition of just ~4.3GB at the end of the disk (in this case, the pre-existing rescue partition). I reduced this partition in size by ~300MB leaving an area of free space claiming to be 263MB in size at the end of the disk beyond this partition.

  /dev/sda2 vfat 4005MB
  Free Space 263MB

Clicking 'edit' to expand this partition to the end of the disk now allowed selecting a size in the spin-box of up to 4300MB in size. After clicking [OK] this returns an error that the size is too big and cannot be re-sized. Through trail and error I eventually found that where 4300 didn't work, 4260 was the limit. This left me with 8MB free space at the end and a failure when attempting to expand the partition by even 1MB.

  http://www.paul.sladen.org/ubuntu/bugs/feisty-20070301-bugs/installer-partition-too-large-allowed.png

Ideally the partitioner should not allow selecting sizes that will immediately fail. Further still, ideally the partitioner should /accurately/ calculate the maximum size possible where this is smaller than that selectable in the dialogue and use that.

[MillenniumBug (millenniumbug)]

This bug report is several years old and concerns obsolete versions of Ubuntu. It has now been marked 'invalid'.

If the bug still appears in Ubuntu 10.10, feel free to open a new report.