Support ntfs partition type for brand new blank hard drives

[Michael Lueck]

I have been advised that the ubiquity package is where this request should end up.

Adding Linux to an existing hard drive with Windows / NTFS format already present magically adds a partition type of NTFS to the "Use As" pick list. Thus one can establish mount points for the copy of Windows already present on the drive.

However it is not possible to pick NTFS when the partition is not pre-existing.

Thus to restore a partition backed up with NTFS3G / ntfsclone, one cannot prepare those partitions and mount points during installation of Linux.

This has been a challenges for quite many versions which have included NTFS3G and ntfsclone, as it has been fully possible to backup / restore Windows images using Linux... just not to be able to set the mount points during the Linux OS installation.

Please lift this slight restriction, allowing blank drives to be loaded in a Dual-Boot configuration utilizing for the Windows half an NTFS3G / ntfsclone prepared image.

If you can drop this into a daily, please let me know when that has been done and I will pull down an xubuntu daily image to test / verify.

Thank you! :-)

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Michael Lueck (mlueck)]

I just pulled down the daily ISO of focal. With a blank new drive, this is still a design gap of the Ubuntu / Xubuntu installer. You cannot tag a brand new partition as ntfs format and assign a Linux mount point to it.

I assume if Windows NTFS partitions were present on the drive, the Linux installer would still properly detect the NTFS partitions, allow mount points to be assigned to the ntfs partitions. It already was working that way six years ago when I opened this enhancement request ticket.

Again, the use-case to request this enhancement would be to produce dual-boot Linux/Windows configurations.

No progress / changes... please leave open to be addressed.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

Thanks for the update Michael.