Confirmed with ubiquity 2.6.10, this is not a problem with Ubiquity but
with partman and it is reproducible with the debian-installer.
Actually, the partition is correctly resized to the size indicated by
the slider but it creates 2 partitions in this space, a root partition
and a swap partition. So in the case where you resize to 2.7GB, the
allocated space to the root partition is 2.7 - swapsize (e.g 1GB)
leaving only 1.7GB for the root partition.
It's the same problem with the text installer, if the user selects
'resize' and resizes the partition to the maximum value proposed, then
the partition is correctly resized but it also creates a swap partition
in the free space. The installer doesn't stop immediately after the
partitioning but further in the installation process when files are
being installed and stops with a 'No space left on device'
On a side note, when a system is installed more than on time and the
user chooses to overwrite the Ubuntu partition (e.g Windows installed
alongside with Ubuntu, and reinstalling Ubuntu) a new swap partition is
created each time ending up with as many swap partition as times the
system has been reinstalled.
I'm moving to partman-auto
** Package changed: ubiquity (Ubuntu Natty) => partman-auto (Ubuntu
Natty)
** Changed in: partman-auto (Ubuntu Natty)
Status: Confirmed => Triaged
** Changed in: partman-auto (Ubuntu Natty)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Canonical Foundations Team
(canonical-foundations)
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Title:
Ubiquity size sliders don't match actual size
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