[Bug 77966] Re: MASTER: Should warn about insufficient disk space (manual partitioning)

[Alan Jacobs Richardson]

I just had the installer crash while upgrading my 11.10 to 12.10. I
suspect that this is because it ran out of room in my boot partition.
Since I set up these partitions myself (some years ago. When I
partitioned the boot partition could hold around 5 versions of the Linux
kernel. Today I have space trouble maintaining 2.) I'm matching it to
the manual partition case, but note that I did not go into the advanced
install options - I chose the upgrade radio button and trusted ubiquity
to handle things cleanly.

I fear that I shall find that this hosed my existing install, so that
I'll have to figure out recovery before regaining access to my data.

The upgrade path also prompts me to create a new user on the system,
which suggests that existing users won't be preserved.

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Title:
  MASTER: Should warn about insufficient disk space (manual
  partitioning)

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubiquity

  Someone using the manual partition can quite easily set up partitions
  for / , /usr or /var that are too small. The installer crashes and a
  bug is reported against the installer (which can now be marked as a
  duplicate of this one). The space should be checked and the user
  warned/stopped -- although with manual partitioning this is non-
  trivial.

  The case for automated partitioning is simpler and will be treated as
  a separate bug.

  NOTE: In some rare cases the installer may mount partitions
  incorrectly and those bugs should NOT be marked duplicates of this
  one. See the moint points and the partman logs.

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