Based on the last two comments I'll mention this here even though it probably deserves a new bug report, or multiple bug reports.
Another way in which a new user may mistakenly delete a partition is the design choice of replacing the Add & Remove buttons with + & - in the advanced partitioning tool, and there is no confirmation or warning that you're about to delete the selected partition if you click on -. Quite simply + & - do not always = add & remove, look at the GNOME screenshot tool and you'll see that + & - = increase & decrease. Or look at the GNOME disk utility, it uses + & - but when you "mouse-over" the - button a pop-up window appears saying Delete partition. No warning is given, nor is any confirmation requested by the installer in this case ................ just highlight a partition, click on -, and poof it's deleted even if the user only intended to reduce the size of the partition. Of course the installer also lacks any indication that it's going to use the largest continuous free space if sufficient free space exists and the user selects Install alongside, the only indication is that the Continue button in the lower right hand corner changes to Install now. We still see complaints about that on the forums, frequently if a user has a mass storage device with unformatted space they'll end up with both Ubuntu and grub in undesired locations. Prior to Maverick if a new user wanted to install Ubuntu alongside either Vista or Win 7, and less than 4 primary partitions existed, they could simply use Windows own partitioning tool to resize the desired Windows partition and then select Use largest continuous free space. Since most newer computers use gpt rather than msdos that option would make installing Ubuntu a snap if it were clearly defined, and if confirmation of the changes was requested before the actual installation proceeds, including the option of where to install grub. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1265192 Title: Install/reinstall wipes out all/other partitions To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/elementaryos/+bug/1265192/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
