[Bug 1218702] Re: ubiquity resizes partition even when not asked to.

[Etss]

i have a problem related to this bug too.. most likely

after the ubuntu partition >  i have an extended partition which contains two logical partitions..
each logical partition has an 2048 free space in front of it....

ubuntu not only that resizes the partition in which it must install... but its moving the begining of the extended partition by 2046 to the right... (maybe he doesnt read the extended partition right, ...)..
i dont think this is a good ideea and i have to manually repair that after ubuntu instalation...
baybe i m not clear enought, i could upload some pictures if its needed...

something like:

2048 |  sda1  |  sda2 - swap |  sda3 - ext4 |
sda4 - extended                                 |

extended looks like:

2048 |  sda1  |  sda2 - swap |  sda3 - ext4 | 2048free| sda5-logical
|      2048free| sda6-logical |

so it pushes sda3 to the right over extended sda 4 --- and sda 4 2046 to
the right...

ty

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Title:
  ubiquity resizes partition even when not asked to.

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “ubiquity” source package in Saucy:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Choose "Something else" at install options, select a partition change
  the FS to ext4, select format, set partition to be /. Do not change
  the size.... size gets changed anyway, ( I lost 8M)

  I think what is happening is that ubuiquity reads the partition size
  and displays it in Mb. It is rounded or truncated to make it fit the
  display. the user doesn't change it, but the size never was the same
  as the original partition and so the partition gets resized.

  What should happen is that if the given size is the same as before and
  after no resize should happen. That is ubiquity should compare what
  the user enters with a recalc for display rather than comparing with
  the actual size to determine if the size is actually changed.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: ubiquity 2.15.15
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-2.1-lowlatency 3.11.0-rc5
  Uname: Linux 3.11.0-2-lowlatency x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.12.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.336
  Date: Thu Aug 29 19:34:04 2013
  InstallCmdLine: noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntustudio.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-Studio 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Alpha amd64 (20130829)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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