Feisty-Beta installer: mountpoint change needs partition size change!
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Colin Watson |
Bug Description
During installation process of Feisty beta I choose manual partitioning option.
There were several problems around mount-points definition:
Problem 1) The first problem is that user must click "Edit" to open dialog for changing mount points
and this dialog is also used for resizing partitions... this is very dangerous if user must
worry about resizing partitions (and potential data loss!!) only for that he/she wants only
set this partition to be mounted on /mnt/foo or so...
Problem 2) Problem mentioned above is even more dangerous because this dialog have set initial size for
partition to ZERO no matter what was the original size. If user only changes mount-point and click
close-button, partition would be destroyed (probably, I didn't try it)!!
Problem 3) Mount-points for my IDE disks' partitions were predefined to be /media/
I thing the FHS standard says that /media is for removable devices and /mnt is for nonremovable
(well I'm not sure about this, but I thing this is usual)... Anyway, I wanted these partitons to be mounted
on /mnt/..... but I was worried about problem 1 to set them so, so I leaved /media/.... mount-points.
Problem 4) After installation gnome volume mounter applet shows along cdrom and floppy also "sda1",
this may be caused by "Problem 3" or because this is only partition with FAT filesystem (other partitions
have EXT3 or EXT2 filesystems and they are not shown in that applet)... anyway this is strange: sda1
is listed and sda5, sda6 and others are not listed..
I thing problems 1 and 2 are really critical if they appear in final Feisty release.
Changed in ubiquity: | |
status: | Needs Info → Confirmed |
Please file multiple problems as multiple bug reports in future; it's difficult for us to keep track otherwise. I will henceforth only consider problems 1 and 2, since I don't think the others are really problems in ubiquity: /media/* is something we've always used, the FHS doesn't specify mount points for fixed media, /mnt is only for temporary mounts, /media/* is only intended as a reasonable default which can be changed, and I guess problem 4 is a problem in GNOME.
I'm interested in why the initial size showed up as zero; could you please attach /var/log/syslog and /var/log/partman to this bug, following the directions in http:// wiki.ubuntu. com/DebuggingUb iquity/ AttachingLogs? Thanks in advance.