ubuntu-22.04 Installer won't let me delete partition?

[Volker Wysk]

Am Mittwoch, dem 26.04.2023 um 19:04 +0200 schrieb Josef Wolf:
> On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 06:50:17PM +0200, Volker Wysk wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, dem 26.04.2023 um 17:26 +0200 schrieb Josef Wolf:
> > > On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 02:26:53PM +0200, Volker Wysk wrote:
> > > > Am Mittwoch, dem 26.04.2023 um 14:12 +0200 schrieb Josef Wolf:
> > > > > I guess, you are talking about "Custom storage layout"
> > > > > 
> > > > > I really don't see how to create encrypted partitions without lvm...
> > > > 
> > > > I've looked. It's the fifth screen, which is titled "Installation type".
> > > > There you have the choices "Erase disk and install Ubuntu" and "Something
> > > > else". Possibly, there are more choices for you.
> > > 
> > > OK, you are about the desktop image, 
> > 
> > Yes.
> > 
> > > while I am about the server image
> > > ubuntu-22.04.2-live-server-amd64.iso
> > > 
> > > But on the desktop installer, I also can't find how to delete a partition (to
> > > repartition).
> > 
> > Hmmm... I can't remember having trouble to repartition the discs with the
> > 22.04 installer (desktop version).
> 
> If it is possible to delete/resize existing partitions, then they have done a
> good job hiding this functionality.

This may be.

> > > So I have to
> > >  1. download desktop image
> > >  2. boot desktop live system
> > >  3. enter all the gory details for language/keyboard/network
> > >  4. use gparted to re-partition
> > >  5. learn that gparted is not able to create encrypted partitions
> > 
> > You don't do that with gparted. This is to be done with the installer (for
> > the desktop version, at least). You only create the partition which is to be
> > used for encryption, and make it an encrypted partition with the installer.
> 
> But to create a new partition, I need to have room on the disk. So I have
> either to delete or to resize one of the existing partitions.

What I meant to say: You only create the partition which is to be encrypted
with gparted. What you do with this partition (such as hosting an encrypted
file system in it) is the business of the operating system which is to be
installed. Therefore this needs to be the responsibility of the installer,
not of gparted.

> > >  6. boot desktop install system
> > >  7. enter all the gory details for language/keyboard/network againencrypting it
> > >  8. recreate partition to mark them to be encrypted
> > >  9. start install (so that encryption is actually created)
> > > 10. abort install
> > > 11. boot server image to do the real install
> > > 12. enter all the gory details for language/keyboard/network again
> > > 
> > > Is this the workflow that the creators of the new installer had in mind?
> > > 
> > > In find this quite ridiculous...
> > 
> > It is!
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Volker
> 
> 
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> Josef Wolf
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