Out of Space

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 08 August 2016 12:55:02 Ralf Mardorf wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Aug 2016 17:26:45 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> >I have done it many times with no problems.
>
> It never caused issues for me, too. Perhaps Gene misunderstands, that
> we manually need to assign what directory belongs to what partition.
> IIRC if we assign it manually, we are free to format or not format the
> chosen partition. However, even if we chose to format a partition, it
> doesn't get resized. IOW if we assign /boot to a 500 GiB partition, we
> could, but don't need to format it. Assuming we are formatting it, it
> will remain 500 GiB. I don't remember the exact layout of the
> installer's partitioning and assignment tool. Last time I used it from
> the server install ISO of 15.10 development.
>
> I seemingly remembered correctly:
>
> https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/install-ubuntu-mate-using-something-el
>se-method/651
>
> "Now select (highlight) the partition you want to use as your home and
> click on "Change":
>
> Now select "Use as" = Ext4
> Format the partition = "NO" (DON'T PUT A TICK IN THE BOX!)
> Mountpoint = "/home" (Forward slash and the word "home")
>
> Click on "OK" if you are certain that the changes you just made are
> correct:"
>
> Regards,
> Ralf

So what do I do when, after prepping the disk the way I want it, 
partition names assigned and already formatted to ext4, IOW the whole 
maryann and the installer still sees it as a terabyte of unpartitioned 
disk?  Or whatever size the disk is.

fdisk can see it ok, along with a whole catalog of other prep tools.  But 
not your installer, why?

Seems like a perfectly valid question to me.  I have made that statement 
several times over this and perhaps 10 other installer related threads 
previously over the last 7 or 8 years, and its the one question that 
seems to be very studiously ignored by all.  And I don't feel like we 
are doing anything more than wasting bandwidth arguing back and forth 
over it until that question IS answered.

I have a new LR drive tire installed on my elderly rider, and I have 
grass over a foot tall.  When I next sit down to read the mail, perhaps 
someone can explain to me what causes this.  But it will be a few hours.



Cheers, Gene Heskett
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