[Bug 1822743] Re: partman: needs to ignore entire /cdrom device

[Rik Shaw]

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Title:
  partman: needs to ignore entire /cdrom device

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  In the file /lib/partman/init.d/30parted the $path (which is a
  partition, NOT a device) is checked to see if it matches the beginning
  of $line (which contains the list of devices from the command
  "parted_devices").  Then, if a match is found, it is later checked if
  this is mounted to "/cdrom", and if so it is later "dropped" IF it is
  determined that the free space on the drive is less than 16777216.

  There are a few problems with this approach, which I attempt to
  rectify in the attached patch:

  1. Since parted_devices lists "/cdrom" to a device (/dev/sdb) not to a
  partition (/dev/sdb1) but $path is always a partition (/dev/sdb1,
  /dev/sdb2, etc.) then no match is ever made, and thus /cdrom is never
  checked to be excluded.

  2. I suggest that at any time the device containing "/cdrom" should be
  excluded, not only if it has more freespace than 16777216.  The reason
  is that newer releases of usb-creator-gtk and other tools such as
  mkusb will leave the remainder of the disk as "free", meaning that if
  you write the installer to a 32GB thumbdrive, it will then have enough
  freespace that makes partman think it is a good candidate for
  installation.  But I don't think it likely that a user will ever want
  to install to the device containing the livecd (/cdrom) and if they
  do, then they can go to the "something else" advanced partitioning to
  specify so.

  The real bug may be that on ubiquity's partition selection screen (NOT
  the advanced "something else") that it sees the MAIN hard drive
  (/dev/sda), and prompts to install side by side but then when clicking
  that option the installer USB (/dev/sdb) is selected as the target, it
  is partitioned, and confusion ensues.

  Regardless, the above points are fixed with the attached patch so I
  hope you will consider including it. This was written against Ubuntu
  18.04 ubiquity 18.04.14.12.

  I will add /var/log/syslog and /var/log/partman of the problem (using
  our remastered installer) to hopefully make it more clear.

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