[Bug 1068567] [NEW] Cannot change NTFS partitions

[Joonas Saarinen]

Public bug reported:

I noticed this slight oddity while installing Ubuntu 12.10 to replace
Windows 7.

Some background info. I had three partitions as follows:

/dev/sda1 (NTFS, 100 MB, W7 special partition)
/dev/sda2 (NTFS, 65 GB, W7 system partition)
/dev/sda3 (NTFS, 400 GB, user files)

My simple plan was to try to directly adapt them to ext4 FS as follows:

sda1 to /boot
sda2 to /
sda3 to /home

The problem was that the "Change" button in the partition editor dialog
did not do anything when a NTFS partition was selected. No feedback was
given either as to why I couldn't perform the operation.

In this case I naturally ended up wiping the disk and creating new
partitions from scratch, which worked fine.

** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Cannot change NTFS partitions

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I noticed this slight oddity while installing Ubuntu 12.10 to replace
  Windows 7.

  Some background info. I had three partitions as follows:

  /dev/sda1 (NTFS, 100 MB, W7 special partition)
  /dev/sda2 (NTFS, 65 GB, W7 system partition)
  /dev/sda3 (NTFS, 400 GB, user files)

  My simple plan was to try to directly adapt them to ext4 FS as
  follows:

  sda1 to /boot
  sda2 to /
  sda3 to /home

  The problem was that the "Change" button in the partition editor
  dialog did not do anything when a NTFS partition was selected. No
  feedback was given either as to why I couldn't perform the operation.

  In this case I naturally ended up wiping the disk and creating new
  partitions from scratch, which worked fine.

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