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| Scott Cowles Jacobs (scott092707) wrote "Format" partiton edit option appears to keep reverting to "Keep" | #0 |
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Lubuntu 18.10 Cosmic
In doing a manual install, I always format the '/' root partition, but leave all others alone.
Thus for all others, I kept the partition edit option at "Keep".
After changing the partition for '/' to "Format", I noticed that there was no display column for "Format?" as there is for gparted, to see at a glance which partitions were to be formatted.
Therefore, I went back and edited the partition, and found that the option was no longer "Format", but had reverted to "Keep".
I tried several times to change it to "Format", and each time it reverted to "Keep".
When I decided to go ahead with the install anyway, I was presented with a list of tasks to be effected, the first five (!) of which were "Format sdb_ as "/" (or some such wording).
I hope that it did not actually format the partition 5 times (but it did seem to take a while!).
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$ uname -a
Linux scott-Asus-
$lsb_release -dsc
Ubuntu Cosmic Cuttlefish (development branch)
$echo $DESKTOP_SESSION
cosmic
$ apt-cache policy calamares
calamares:
Installed: 3.2.0-1
Candidate: 3.2.0-1
Version table:
*** 3.2.0-1 500
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
$ apt-cache policy partitionmanager
partitionmanager:
Installed: 3.3.1-2
Candidate: 3.3.1-2
Version table:
*** 3.3.1-2 500
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
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