[Bug 1279557] Re: Support ntfs partition type for brand new blank hard drives

[Michael Lueck]

I just pulled down the daily ISO of focal. With a blank new drive, this
is still a design gap of the Ubuntu / Xubuntu installer. You cannot tag
a brand new partition as ntfs format and assign a Linux mount point to
it.

I assume if Windows NTFS partitions were present on the drive, the Linux
installer would still properly detect the NTFS partitions, allow mount
points to be assigned to the ntfs partitions. It already was working
that way six years ago when I opened this enhancement request ticket.

Again, the use-case to request this enhancement would be to produce
dual-boot Linux/Windows configurations.

No progress / changes... please leave open to be addressed.

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Title:
  Support ntfs partition type for brand new blank hard drives

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I have been advised that the ubiquity package is where this request
  should end up.

  Adding Linux to an existing hard drive with Windows / NTFS format
  already present magically adds a partition type of NTFS to the "Use
  As" pick list. Thus one can establish mount points for the copy of
  Windows already present on the drive.

  However it is not possible to pick NTFS when the partition is not pre-
  existing.

  Thus to restore a partition backed up with NTFS3G / ntfsclone, one
  cannot prepare those partitions and mount points during installation
  of Linux.

  This has been a challenges for quite many versions which have included
  NTFS3G and ntfsclone, as it has been fully possible to backup /
  restore Windows images using Linux... just not to be able to set the
  mount points during the Linux OS installation.

  Please lift this slight restriction, allowing blank drives to be
  loaded in a Dual-Boot configuration utilizing for the Windows half an
  NTFS3G / ntfsclone prepared image.

  If you can drop this into a daily, please let me know when that has
  been done and I will pull down an xubuntu daily image to test /
  verify.

  Thank you! :-)

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