Public bug reported:
I have just installed Ubuntu to a wrong partition, formatting 80 GB of
data from my hard drive by mistake.
Looking back on what happened, I can say that the installer's partition
manager couldn't have been more ambiguous about my partition's info.
Failing to display basic information like my partitions' labels and my
hard drives' models, and displaying the partition sizes in megabytes
when they all exceed the 1GB barrier, making it very easy to get
confused with my several partitions/hard drives.
I think this is a serious issue, relying on the user to guess which
partition is which based only on their sizes (in megabytes) is
completely nonsense.
The Advanced partition manager of the installer has to be a little more
advanced than this, It has to:
1) Show clearly the partition's labels if present.
2) Show every textual information known about each hard drive, like its model
string.
3) Express units larger than 1024 MBs in GBs and larger than 1024 GB in TBs and
so on..
I really hope that you take this under serious consideration. I can't
begin to express how big the loss I've just encountered because of this.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Ubuntu's installer's partition manager is too ambiguous
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/373932
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