Comment 3 for bug 362343

cjwatson
Your right I did misunderstand what 'Resize partiton' meant in that context.

As for /dev/sda5.
I usually sfdisk the drive before attempting any installs.
I am relatively sure that sda5 should have been an empty
partition.

I will rerun the test resize sda3 (smaller) and see what happens.