[Bug 1861912] Re: file system creation in partition failed in auto-resize install 18.04.4

[Julian Andres Klode]

mwhudson's problem is that the USB medium (sdb) he was installing from
had more free space than the actual disk (sda) in the system, and
partman-auto wrongly then chose to use that free space to install to.

Now, the partitioning of installer media is somewhat weird, so it's sort
of expected that you can't create a file system on there. So it's not
clear whether this is the same issue as the bug report. Obviously still
something that should be fixed.

Bill: Is your install medium larger than the disk in the system, or
rather the free space larger than the free space on the installed
system, too? Without more logs, we can't have conclusive answers. I
think even just running parted -l after booting the installer would help
a lot.

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Title:
  file system creation in partition failed in auto-resize install
  18.04.4

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  32bit ISO testing.

  Ubuntu MATE 18.04.4 20200203.1

  Lenovo T60

  When trying to install and use auto-resize on 32bit system the
  installer fails and locks system with the error: The ext4 file system
  creation in partition#5 of SCSI3 (0,0,0) (sdb) failed.

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