Hi all, Subiquity, the new server installer, gained a new feature recently: the ability to reuse partitions (and RAIDs and LVMs too) that already exist on the device you are installing to. If this sounds like a feature you are interested in, please grab yourself an ISO from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-server/daily-live/pending/ and test it out.
If you don't want to test this on a real system containing real data yet (understandable), a simple test would be to install to a disk image or two in a VM, and then install again to the same images and use parts of the first installation when you perform the second. $ wget http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-server/daily-live/pending/eoan-live-server-amd64.iso $ qemu-img create -f raw disk1.img 10G $ qemu-img create -f raw disk2.img 10G $ kvm -m 1024 -boot d -cdrom eoan-live-server-amd64.iso -hda disk1.img -hdb disk2.img Now run the install, doing some interesting things with partitions and RAIDs and VGs (don't just accept the defaults) and then run it again: $ kvm -m 1024 -boot d -cdrom eoan-live-server-amd64.iso -hda disk1.img -hdb disk2.img You should be able to reuse the partitions/RAIDs/LVs you created before when installing the second time. Please reply here or file bugs at https://bugs.launchpad.net/subiquity with any feedback you have! Cheers, mwh
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