[Bug 219568] Re: Partitioner displays "partition too small"-like incorrect message

[Brian Murray]

** Tags added: ubiquity-1.8.5

** Tags added: hardy

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Title:
  Partitioner displays "partition too small"-like incorrect message

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I was installing Ubuntu 8.04 RC1. In the partitioner in the installer,
  I chose manual setup (as opposed to guided setup). I created a scheme
  that's shown on the screenshot attached. The error message in the
  screenshot does not make sense. It read "Some of the partitions you
  created were too small. Please make the following partitions at least
  this large (in bytes).  ....." (text ommited, the minimum size was
  approx. 2 GB). It's strange since the root partition is approx. 12.5
  GB large. Swap is 550MB, but the RAM in the machine is 512MB (Actually
  this was a VMware Fusion virtual machine, and the size memory on host
  OS is 2GB). However, ignoring the message (hitting "Continue") and
  installing worked fine. I even tried to "Hibernate" the virtual
  machine (System > Log out > Hibernate), and it worked fine, so the
  complain probably does not make sense even for swap partition, which
  is 550 MB.

  To sum up:
  * the message is incorrect
  * the message, if correct, should say which exact partition is small
  * the message should include a human readable size as well (i.e. "2 GB" instead of "1999316992" - it's hard to deduce quickly if it's in scale of 10^9 or 10^10 or 10^8 ...)

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