Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: ubiquity
I installed Gutsy AMD64 on my laptop and lost a lot of time identifying
the disk I wanted to install it to.
I have partitioned my laptop harddisk into several equally sized
partitions, to try different distributions on. In live CD mode, nautilus
shows them as something like "10G disk", "10G disk [1]", "10G disk [2]",
etc. Then when I mount them, they become "disk", "disk [1]", "disk [2]".
In both cases I can't see which is which.
Then when I fire up the installer, the partitioner (manual install)
shows them as /media/hda#. So now I still don't know where my previous
Ubuntu install is, that I want to overwrite. I even don't know which
hda# number corresponds to which disk [#} number in Nautilus.
I had to find the installed OS in /boot/Grub/menu.lst (maybe there's a
better way, but this was the only one I could think of), check the used
disk space with the Properties dialog, and match that used space with
the ones reported by Ubiquity to discover which /media/hda# number was
the Ubuntu one.
Can ubiquity at least use the same naming strategy as Nautilus, or show
the UUID so I know which is which? I'll file another bug about the
naming in Nautilus, to suggest using some identification string on the
disks to determine the OS (if any) is installed, and use that in the
naming of the disk. Ubiquity might then follow whatever they decide in
Nautilus...
** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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use consistent, recognisable disk names
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/157019
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