Comment 1 for bug 346700

FYI: on good old 8.10, the same procedure (free space slider to the right) on a 4GB stick results in the correct space assignment: almost all to / , and only a litte space extra to /cdrom:

rootfs 3168M 155M 2853M 6% /
/dev/sdb1 3928M 3917M 11M 100% /cdrom

details:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ df -BM
Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 500M 2M 498M 1% /lib/modules/2.6.27-7-generic/volatile
tmpfs 500M 2M 498M 1% /lib/modules/2.6.27-7-generic/volatile
tmpfs 500M 0M 500M 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 500M 1M 500M 1% /var/run
varlock 500M 0M 500M 0% /var/lock
udev 500M 3M 498M 1% /dev
tmpfs 500M 1M 500M 1% /dev/shm
rootfs 3168M 155M 2853M 6% /
/dev/sdb1 3928M 3917M 11M 100% /cdrom
/dev/loop0 676M 676M 0M 100% /rofs
tmpfs 500M 1M 500M 1% /tmp
/dev/mmcblk0p1 1876M 499M 1377M 27% /media/disk
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ usb-creator

-- Starting up at 11:14:22 --
[11:14:22] got a disc: Ubuntu 8.10 i386
[11:14:22] new device:
{'capacity': dbus.UInt64(4126146048L), 'uuid': 'E546-920F', 'label': '', 'free': 4118052864L, 'fstype': 'vfat', 'device': '/dev/sdb1', 'mountpoint': '/media/disk-1', 'udi': '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_E546_920F'}
[11:14:22] adding: /dev/sdb1
[11:14:22] updating dest_status as part of update_row_state
[11:15:20] Installing...
[11:15:20] Source CD: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_label_Ubuntu_8_10_i386
[11:15:20] Destination disk: /dev/sdb1
[11:15:20] Persistence size: 3218 MB
[11:15:20] Marking partition 1 as active.
[11:15:20] installing the bootloader to /dev/sdb1.
[11:15:24] ['/usr/share/usb-creator/install.py', '-s', u'/cdrom/.', '-t', '/media/disk-1', '-p', '3218']
[11:16:04] possibly adding: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/bluetooth_acl_1f00b00034
[10:34:20] Install command exited with code: 0
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$