[Bug 1664440] Re: Ubiquity doesn't offer auto-resize option with GPT partition table containing Windows and Ubuntu installs

[Walter Lapchynski]

** Description changed:

  STEPS TO REPRODUCE
-  1. With a similar partition scheme as follows (with plenty of free space in the Ubuntu partition and no encrypted LVM), start ubiquity
-  2. Ensure connection to the Internet 
-  3. Leave check boxes for additional and third party packages unchecked 
-  4. Click continue to advance to partitioning choices 
+  1. With a similar partition scheme as follows (with plenty of free space in the Ubuntu partition and no encrypted LVM), start ubiquity
+  2. Ensure connection to the Internet
+  3. Leave check boxes for additional and third party packages unchecked
+  4. Click continue to advance to partitioning choices
  
- EXPECTED RESULTS 
- Among other options, an install alongside option that auto-resizes the Linux partition to make room for the new install. 
+ EXPECTED RESULTS
+ Among other options, an install alongside option that auto-resizes the Linux partition to make room for the new install.
  
- ACTUAL RESULTS 
- The only options provided are the three guided options that uses the entire disk and the manual option. 
+ ACTUAL RESULTS
+ The only options provided are the three guided options that uses the entire disk and the manual option.
  
- PARTITION SCHEME (via fdisk) 
+ PARTITION SCHEME (via fdisk)
  Disk /dev/sda: 232.9 GiB, 250059350016 bytes, 488397168 sectors
  Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
  Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
  I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
  Disklabel type: gpt
  Disk identifier: 73EB9828-4715-4D2C-B6E0-ED0B07CE0C22
  
  Device Start End Sectors Size Type
  /dev/sda1 2048 206847 204800 100M EFI System
  /dev/sda2 206848 239615 32768 16M Microsoft reserved
  /dev/sda3 239616 243537919 243298304 116G Microsoft basic data
  /dev/sda4 484710400 488396799 3686400 1.8G Windows recovery environment
  /dev/sda6 243537920 468117503 224579584 107.1G Linux filesystem
  /dev/sda7 468117504 484710399 16592896 7.9G Linux swap
  
- NOTES 
- The install image used was Kubuntu 16.04.2 and the existing image was Kubuntu 16.04.
+ NOTES
+  * The install image used was Kubuntu 16.04.2 and the existing image was Kubuntu 16.04.
+  * This is a continuation of this comment on a more general bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1663298/comments/17
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.21.63.3 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-36.36~16.04.1-generic 4.8.11
  Uname: Linux 4.8.0-36-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.5
  Architecture: i386
  CasperVersion: 1.376.2
  CurrentDesktop: KDE
  Date: Tue Feb 14 04:26:04 2017
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/kubuntu.seed boot=casper maybe-ubiquity initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --- maybe-ubiquity
  LiveMediaBuild: Kubuntu 16.04.2 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release i386 (20170209)
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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  Ubiquity doesn't offer auto-resize option with GPT partition table
  containing Windows and Ubuntu installs

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