** Description changed:

- 13.04 Beta1  UbuntuStudio
- 
+ 13.04 Beta1  UbuntuStudio 64 bit
  
  Run the Installer and choose "Something Else"
  
  on the manual partitioning "Installation Type" screen, choose a partiton
  and click the [Change] button.
  
  a dialog will open with the current size of the partition and the
  ability to change that size.
  
  Bug: compare the size that you see in the dialog, to the size of the
  partition as reported in the main window.  The size is off-by-one.  see
  attached screenshot
  
  This causes the partitioner to go into resize mode, even when you do not
  intend to alter the size.
  
  Furhtermore, even if you change the size in the dialog to be the same as
  the size in the main window, it still enters resize mode when the dialog
  is closed.  This may be due to a "value changed" flag, or this may be
  due to the error induced by rounding sectors to the nearest megabyte.
  
  Note: on this computer, the partitons are not track aligned.  this might
  make a difference in this behavior.
  
- Expected:  
+ Expected:
  1) There should not be an off-by-one error
  
  2) The only proper way to decide if a resize is needed is to compare the
  original value that was placed into the Change dialog, to the value that
  was returned from the dialog.   This comparision must be preformed on
  the numeric value so as to avoid getting confused by leading zeros and
  space characters etc.  Only if the values are different should the
  resize action be invoked.
  
  Furthermore it may make sense to limit it to some minmum threshold, does
  it really make sense to resize a partition by less than N megs?
  Anything less than 100 megs is probably a mistake.

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Title:
  during manual partitioning, the size is off-by-one, this causes
  unexpected resizing

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