[jaunty] ubiquity turns swap partition into /home, /var or /usr

[David D Lowe]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

If one selects manual partitioning in the installation procedure of Ubuntu from the Live CD, Ubiquity transforms the selected swap partition into a /home partition (or /var, /usr if a /home partition already exists).

Steps to reproduce:
- Run Ubuntu 9.04's iso in a Virtualbox with a virtual harddisk.
- When installing, choose manual partitioning.
- Click "New partition table", and accept the warning.
- Create a new ext3 partition in the free space taking up about 90% of the space, mount point /
- In the free space that's left, create a swap partition. It automatically gets transformed to /home

Running Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope Alpha 2 in Virtualbox OSE 2.0.4 , i386.

[GAkHEdgmrQ (mvndukezjm-deactivatedaccount)]

I am also experiencing this issue. Using the Jaunty Alpha 2 i386 live cd. I am trying to create a new partiton table with the following partitions:

20GB / (primary)
10GB /home (logical)
6GB swap (logical)
and then allocate the rest to /data (logical)

Upon creating the 6GB swap partition, Ubiquity changes the filesystem to /var, /home, /usr. I have tried rebooting multiple times and on each occasion the swap partition creates something different.

Steps to reproduce:
- Run Ubuntu 9.04 live cd, choosing the full live environment.
- When installing, choose manual partitioning.
- Click "New partition table", and accept the warning.
- Create 20gb /, 10gb /home
- Create a swap partition of 6000mb.

I am extending the bug description to include the other filesystems, /var and /usr

[GAkHEdgmrQ (mvndukezjm-deactivatedaccount)]

This bug is no longer present for me as of Ubuntu Alpha 3, i386.

Many thanks.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

Closing since it was reported as fixed in 2009.