Subiquity does not show free space on drive

[Heinrich Schuchardt]

My NVMe drive as reported by gdisk has abundant free space:

Total free space is 702794349 sectors (335.1 GiB)

Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
   1 2048 534527 260.0 MiB EF00 EFI system partition
   2 534528 796671 128.0 MiB 0C01 Microsoft reserved ...
   3 796672 525084671 250.0 GiB 0700 Basic data partition
   4 1996312576 2000408575 2.0 GiB 2700 Basic data partition
   5 525084672 1025085439 238.4 GiB 8300 Debian root
   6 1025085440 1293520895 128.0 GiB 8300 Linux filesystem

I choose custom layout in subiquity. Subiquity only shows the existing partitions but not any option to create a new partition for my installation.

Best regards

Heinrich

[Heinrich Schuchardt (xypron)]

Output of

curl --unix-socket /run/subiquity/socket http://a/storage

[Olivier Gayot (ogayot)]

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             To continue you need to: Mount a filesystem at /
                                      Select a boot disk

             FILE SYSTEM SUMMARY

               No disks or partitions mounted.

             AVAILABLE DEVICES

               DEVICE TYPE SIZE
             [ KBG5AZNT1T02_LA_KIOXIA_52QC80B5EJS6 local disk 953.869G ▸ ]
               partition 1 existing, unused ESP, unused 260.000M ▸
               partition 2 existing, unused 128.000M ▸
               partition 3 existing, unused 250.000G ▸
               partition 4 existing, unused 1.953G ▸
               partition 5 existing, unused 238.418G ▸
               partition 6 existing, unused 128.000G ▸

             [ Samsung_Flash_Drive_FIT_0347922050000730-0:0 local disk 59.754G ▸ ]
               partition 1 existing, unused 1.857G ▸
               partition 2 existing, unused ESP, unused 5.578M ▸
               partition 3 existing, unused 57.890G ▸

^ Reproduced in dry-run mode

[Heinrich Schuchardt (xypron)]

Partition 4 which is at the end of the disk is the Windows recovery partition. Definitively nothing the user wants to touch.

[Dan Bungert (dbungert)]

This is expected behavior. The partition editing behavior is behind the storage-version=2 feature flag, which is off by default.