Comment 45 for bug 652852

Regarding the latest changes to return this option I performed a couple more tests this AM, mostly to be sure we still handled primary partition limits properly, and it appears we did.

But I was also curious what size free space would be considered appropriate to allow the installation to just proceed with no further warning after selecting side-by-side.

I'd already tried one scenario where the existing primary root partition was just over 39GB and the free space was about 37GB. In that case the partitioning and installation process just began as described above (using the free space), so I know that the free space can be smaller than the existing partition, I just don't know how much smaller.

In this latest test I created only about 10GB of unallocated space and I got the fall-back to actual resizing. Screenshot attached.

Many apologies in advance. I hope you know I'm only trying to help, but if the UI stays as is I think we'd need to document exactly how ubiquity determines whether to use the newly created free space or offer to resize an existing partition.

Could that also effect what the minimum size displayed prior to installation should be, RE: bug 745148.

I'll still bet Colin and Evan have a dartboard dedicated to me ;^)