Formatting Fails if Partitions are Mounted [Trivial]

Bug #28083 reported by Ben
8
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
partman-basicfilesystems (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

This will probably never happen to anybody else, but when installing Dapper
(2006-01-05) I managed to cause the formatting of a partition to fail. I
manually edited the partition table (as normal), but wanted to double check I
was overwriting the correct partitions, so shelled out to BusyBox, mounted the
one I needed to check so could see its contents, then continued with the
installation. This caused the formatting stage to fail. After manually
unmounting the partition, it was formatted correctly. Maybe the format stage
could force an unmount before it starts?

Revision history for this message
Adam Niedling (krychek) wrote :

I don't think this is a bug. It's like partitioning will fail if you unplug the HDD. And I don't think that the formatter should force an unmount. Also there was no activity for this bug for more than 2,5 years. I'm closing this bug.

Changed in partman-basicfilesystems:
status: New → Invalid
Revision history for this message
Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Real issue, do not close or at least have the basic decency to ask the assignee before removing an item from their to-do list!

Changed in partman-basicfilesystems:
status: Invalid → Triaged
Colin Watson (cjwatson)
Changed in partman-basicfilesystems (Ubuntu):
assignee: Colin Watson (cjwatson) → nobody
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