manual partitioning in ubiquity doesn't allow individual changing of mount targets any more

[Patrick T.]

Since Maverick or Natty, manual partitioning in ubiquity doesn't allow individual changing of the mount targets any more. Before that version I could easyly mount my existing NTFS volumes to individual folders like /media/winboot, /media/winsystem, /media/owndata, etc. - Now I must select one of the predefined selections like "/dos" [WTF? This is year 2011 plus I don't know a DOS that supports NTFS natively] or "/windows". That causes two critical problems:
1. I cannot use Ubiquity to fully configure all of my (more than 2) partitions, because I run out of choices in the select box - so I must manually edit /etc/fstab after installing the system...
2. I don't want to use any directorys in the "/" folder for mounting partitions, but the partitioning tool offers only those choices - so I must manually edit /etc/fstab after installing the system one more time, plus, I must move and chown/chmod the folder where I want my partitions to be mounted...

This is very annoying and it needs much more time to get a running system, also because this is a removed feature that worked before an Ubuntu version step... That's why this is a bug and not a feature request.

[Brendan Donegan (brendan-donegan)]

Hi,

Are you sure you can't right click or something to edit the mount target manually? I'll have a look myself, but I thought that was an option.

[Brendan Donegan (brendan-donegan)]

Confirming this is the case. I get the feeling there was probably a good reason for this change so will be interesting to hear the developers response.

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[Brendan Donegan (brendan-donegan)]

This bug is a duplicate of Bug #769043 which is mentioned in the release notes of Natty (there are also suggested workarounds given in the release notes)

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyNarwhal/ReleaseNotes (and search for '769043' to find the secion)

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[Patrick T. (p1703)]

Before Maverick (I think it was that version), I could edit the mount point easily by putting in some characters into the selection. But now that selection is a non-editable choice. I think, I tried to do anything to edit it including using the right mouse key - without success.

Maybe, that was changed, because keyboard layout selection moved to a later place in setup and e.g. the backslash key depends on that selection. So maybe, a bug was fixed by a new bug / lack of feature... If that was the case, a better fix would be (only in case of manual partitioning) to move keyboard layout selection before partitioning.

[Brendan Donegan (brendan-donegan)]

Hi Patrick,

Can you check out the mentioned bug and put any commentary on that instead? This bug should be considered closed (since it's a duplicate of the other one)

Thanks,

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