[Bug 1066480] Re: 12.10 installer don't show encrypted partitions

[Tim Prosser]

I can confirm this affected me.

I installed to a system with some disks pre-encrypted - an old /home
which I was going to migrate to a new larger disk and some other data
partitions.  I also created some new encrypted data partitions on the
large disk in preparation.

I assigned the encrypted partitions a mount point (/data, etc),
expecting the installer to ask for the encryption password at some point

I specifically did not ask it to do any formatting.

On starting the install, the encrypted partitions were re-formatted and
all the data lost.

Of course, I had a backup, but I ended up with a number of unecrypted
partitions (other than home, which I chose to re-encrypt once I'd
realised what had happened).


I can see that I made a mistake in assigning a filesystem type (ext4), expecting that the installer would want to know the underlying filesystem, but there should definitely be a warning before destroying data when the format flag is not set.

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Title:
  12.10 installer don't show encrypted partitions

Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu quantal series:
  Fix Released
Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “ubiquity” source package in Quantal:
  Won't Fix
Status in “ubiquity” source package in Raring:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Hallo
  Testing 20121014 amd64 desktop in virtual env.
  in the disk was already present an encrypted Ubuntu installation, and when I try to install a second Ubuntu it don't consider the encrypted partitions, suggesting to erase all the disk instead to instal along side.
  But I want a free system for my son and an ecrypted one for my work on the same disk.
  Attached screenshot
  Thanks
  Fabio

  We can also see that the partition is regularry mounted and showed in
  launcher.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: ubiquity 2.12.11 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.328
  Date: Sun Oct 14 10:55:01 2012
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121014)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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