[Bug 273925] Re: Installer disk layout utility does not warn sufficiently before formatting

[husi001]

** Also affects: ubiquity
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: ubiquity (Unity Linux)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Fix Released

** Changed in: ubiquity
     Assignee: (unassigned) => husi001 (pocc89)

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => husi001 (pocc89)

** Changed in: ubiquity (Unity Linux)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => husi001 (pocc89)

** No longer affects: ubiquity

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Title:
  Installer disk layout utility does not warn sufficiently before
  formatting

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “ubiquity” package in Unity Linux:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: debian-installer

  This is a very specific bug related to the manual partitioning
  behaviour

  - /dev/sda4 is an encrypted ext3 FS

  Start the 8.10 alpha 6 installer

  - configure /dev/sda2 as ext3 /
  - set up /dev/sda4 as ext3 /home (do not check format box)
  - proceed with install and /dev/sda4 gets formatted

  Restart the 8.10 alpha 6 installer

  - set up /dev/sda4 as ext3 /home (do not check format box)
  - installer automatically checks format box (presumably because type has changed from unknown -> ext3)
  - no immediate warning of impending format
  - 'ready to install' page does list that /dev/sda4 will be formatted

  On the one hand the installer has done the correct thing as there's no other way to mount an unknown fs on /home
  However, this caught me out as I deliberately did not check the format box.  I can restore from backup, but others may not be as lucky
  I believe that the installer should introduce an *immediate* pop-up warning:

  ====
  Warning!
  This partition will be formatted as (insert FS type here) in order to be mounted on (insert mount point here)
  ====

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