ambiguity on disk repartitioning
Bug #176341 reported by
Andy Stanford-Clark
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| ubiquity (Baltix) |
New
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Undecided
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| ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Bug Description
If you use the guided option for repartitioning, in the case where you want to shrink an existing (windows) partition, and install Ubuntu into the freed space, there is a slider, which says (something like) "how big do you want the new partition to be".
To me, that meant "how much space do you want to free up to give to your shiny new Ubuntu.. i.e. the *new* partition".
What it really means, it turns out, is how big do you want the existing partition to become.
This is at the stage in the installation where die-hard windows users about to take the plunge, are most nervous - I'm about to trust Ubuntu to do what I might have paid money to get Partition Magic to do, so this is not the time to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt!
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| Nanley Chery (nanoman) wrote | #1 |
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| TerryG (tgalati4) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in ubiquity: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
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| Michael Losonsky (michl) wrote | #3 |
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| Andy Stanford-Clark (andysc) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in ubiquity: | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
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