Comment 7 for bug 1163908

I did not try to run the test case precisely, but I did pick the resizer after selecting a partition.

While the behavior may seem weird, it is consistent with the wording of the dialogs in d-i, and in just about anywhere else: you resize the selected partition to some size, and the free space will be automatically partitioned (which will include / and swap, or other partitions as defaulted in d-i). In other words, you're really working on the selected, already-existing partitioned space and choosing to resize it: "max" means keep the size as big as it possibly can, while freeing up a bit of disk space for further use, and has to be this way to maintain the same behavior as other d-i panels.

Given that as stated above, this is both consistent with other partitioning dialogs in d-i and consistent with the way other applications tend to approach resizing existing partitions, I'm not tempted to change this.

Any reasonable suggestions for rewording the template are obviously welcome, as are good patches which might rework this in a sane way. Reassigning to partman-partitioning which seems to be the best option for now. I'm keeping this bug open in case there are patches to improve on the wording, if it can help users make more sense of this dialog.