Installer formats more than it's told

[Roy W. Andersen]

I just installed Kubuntu flight-7 and had to repartition my drive in order to get beyond the 2355 minimum size bug (reported as bug #45147).

My hard-drive setup:
hda1 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 >
/boot (extd) /home swap / /usr
150MB 30GB 1GB 2.3GB 4.3GB

This is after the re-partitioning - the only difference is that hda7 and hda8 had different sized before (hda7 was 2GB, hda8 was 4.6GB). So I deleted them both and re-created them with the sized shown above - all was done from within the installer. I then proceeded to format them both as ext3.

When setting up the partitions, I checked the boxes for formating all partitions _except_ my /home partition (hda5). However, the installation has just completed, and all my partitions are formated (including hda5).

[Roy W. Andersen (ensnared)]

Yea, ok, so my purty partition setup ascii is shown differenty after posting than in the edit-box. Anyway, hope you see what I mean - I've no idea how to do the equivalent of HTML's pre-tag here (if it's even possible), and since there's no option to preview-before-posting I don't feel like experimenting too much with it :P

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Thanks for your report. Could you please attach /var/log/partman (or /var/log/installer/partman if you've rebooted) to this bug? I'm pretty sure that this is bug 35079 (which is fixed in current daily builds) but of course with data-loss bugs I like to make sure. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

[Roy W. Andersen (ensnared)]

This is the logfile. Can't tell if it's the same bug or not, but I'm guessing you can ;)

[Philip A. Marshall (philip-philipamarshall)]

I had the same issue with dapper amd64 beta2.

I made mount points for /, /swap and /home and asked it not to format any of them. In the ascii dialog it said it was going to format the / and /home partitions (but not the swap). As this was a clean install, I went ahead and said OK and it happily formatted both those partitions.

I checked for a /var/log/installer/partman file, but it doesn't seem to be there. If there's anything else I can do to help, let me know.

[Rocco Stanzione (trappist)]

Is this still an issue with the final dapper installer, or with edgy?

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Having been further prodded by bug 61732, I fixed this in the Edgy beta release. My apologies for any inconvenience caused.

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