[Bug 812907] Re: Unallocated free space after creating parititons

[Marcus Tomlinson]

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** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

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Title:
  Unallocated free space after creating parititons

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  A few days ago I installed Ubuntu 11.04 to a Acer Aspire 722 netbook. Originally, it had 3 primary partitions:
  Win7 restore (13GB)
  Win7 system something (100MB)
  Win7 (~460GB)
  I was using alternate install from USB disk. The first thing I did was to shrink Win7 partition to 40GB. Then, I added 4 logical partitions (swap 4GB, boot 500MB, home 40GB and root 40GB), leaving ~350GB of unallocated space. What happend next I discovered today when I tried to install one more OS and I couldn't create new partitions and I spent a few hours trying to find out what's wrong.
  As it turned out, the extended partition created by ubiquity was the exact size of 4 linux partitions I created (~85GB) and it didn't include the free space left on the disk. As I alredy had 3 primary partitions, I was unble to create more partitions.
  Because extended partition is in use when Ubuntu boots, I was unale to extend it to include the free space left on the disk and I needed to boot it again from USB and use GParted from there.

  What should be done instead: if ubiquity creates extended partition,
  and it's 4th partition on the disk, it should also include free space
  left on the disk, as there is no other way to use that space (at
  least, with classic partition table).

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