manual partitioner hard to set partition size
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ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: ubiquity
After trying to install from the herd 3 live cd I finally discovered why the installer was crashing. On my first attempt in the manual partition section,I created a new 5 GB partition, but in reality it was an 87 MB partition. The installer incorrectly reported the size and did not create the size which I figured I had to give to it in Bytes. There was no warning that my / partition was to small to install to, just a quick popup that I was out of space on the mounted temp partition ( sorry can't remember the name of it) and then the installer crashed. I attempted to install many times using the 87MB partition with no warnings about it being to small. My next attempt I tried to make a 10 GB partition, but I ended up with a 32 GB partition. With a large enough / partition the installer worked perfectly from there.
There needs to be an easier way to define partition size, and the partitioner needs to report sizes correctly and in a human readable format.
Thanks for your report. This is partly also bug 82848; ubiquity 1.3.18 should be much better for you.