Ubiquity proceeds to use free space without warning
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Release Notes for Ubuntu |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Colin Watson | ||
Natty |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Oneiric |
Won't Fix
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High
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Ubuntu Installer Team | ||
Precise |
Fix Released
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High
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Colin Watson |
Bug Description
Release note:
If there is at least 5.2 GB of unpartitioned space available on a disk, the installer will elect to create an Ubuntu partition in that space for the "Install Ubuntu alongside ..." option. While the normal "Install Ubuntu alongside ..." option has a second page for resizing a partition, this variant does not. Pressing "Install Now" will immediately start the installation.
Original bug report follows:
Binary package hint: ubiquity
This is really a continuation of bug 652852. Please just begin reading about post #35, and apologies in advance if I'm just being impatient.
We've progressed greatly with this and I know it's not been easy for the ubuntu-installer team, particularly Colin and Evan, but I'm still concerned about the option to "use largest continuous free space" being lumped into "install alongside".
I have read the spec provided by Evan:
https:/
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what this means, [maps to resize_use_free or use_biggest_free] ????????????
But ATM the fact is that "install alongside" will use as little as 10GB, which IMHO is good, but having chosen "alongside" and having no opportunity to verify what the installer is going to do certainly freaked me out the first time. Quite factually if adequate unallocated space exists and you choose "install alongside" the installation just begins - period!
Several questions come to mind. I've not tried it yet but what if I had adequate free space on each of two drives? How about adequate free space on a USB flash drive?
It just seems scary to have the installation begin with no idea what it's doing. Does that make sense?
I'm just trying to avoid any nightmare scenarios for noobs.
OT but I have tried the 'live-upgrade' and 'wubi-if-
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Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110422)
LiveMediaBuild_: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110422)
Package: ubiquity 2.6.9
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
ProcVersionSign
Tags: natty natty
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:
tags: | added: iso-testing |
description: | updated |
tags: | added: ubiquity-2.6.9 |
tags: | added: rls-mgr-o-tracking |
tags: |
added: rls-mgr-p-tracking removed: rls-mgr-o-tracking |
Changed in ubuntu-release-notes: | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
tags: |
added: rls-p-tracking removed: rls-mgr-p-tracking |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Precise): | |
milestone: | none → ubuntu-12.04 |
tags: | added: precise |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Precise): | |
assignee: | Ubuntu Installer Team (ubuntu-installer) → Colin Watson (cjwatson) |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
If someone wants to reproduce this simply begin with an existing install, use gparted to create adequate free space (the smallest I've tried ATM is 10GB), then during installation choose "install alongside". You'll see that the installation just begins with no additional option or warning offered.
I find that a bit scary.