Warning about partitioning resizing when not resizing
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Attempting to do a fresh installation of Ubuntu Mate 17.04 on a machine with existing partition setup that I want to keep.
Steps were:
"Preparing to install Ubuntu MATE" - checked both "Download..." and "Install third party..."
"Installation type" - selected "Something else"
In the partitioning step, right clicked on an existing ext4 partition and chose "Change", then selected "ext4" from the dropdown, set mount point as "/" then clicked ok.
At this point I got a scary message box:
"Before you can select a new partition size, any previous changes have to be written to disk
You cannot undo this operation
Please note that the resize operation may take a long time"
Clicking continue seems to work and doesn't take a long time, but this is not a correct message because I haven't resized. I'm not scared of partitioning but this gave me pause.
Should it help, I videoed the process (it's repeatable on that machine, although won't be for long after the installation is finished!) so I'd remember what I did. The video is https:/
| Etienne Papegnies (etienne-papegnies) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in ubuntu-mate: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| no longer affects: | ubuntu-mate |
Weirdly enough, the same thing happened to me yesterday while I was performing an installation of Ubuntu MATE 16.04.2 over an old Linux Mint 13 install.
The setup was much the same as yours except there was only three old partitions on the drive: /, swap and /home (no efi partition)
I didn't click "continue" at this point though, I clicked "Go Back" and the message didn't appear again after that.