On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Phil Susi <ps...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On 9/24/2015 1:45 PM, Brian C. Lane wrote: >> I've only seen 1 other bug like this in Fedora, and I basically told >> them they need to recreate their disk or use some other tool. I'm not >> sure we need to support such a corner case. > > Given that it doesn't look like this will be easy to fix and how > exceedingly rare it is ( which is kind of surprising to be honest ), I'm > starting to agree. On the other hand, we should at least throw a proper > error message that we don't like your goofy partition table rather than > crash with an assertion failure.
I wish I could remember exactly how I partitioned the disk. I think I resized the NTFS partition using the Windows 7 tools and then let the Ubuntu installer partition the rest of the disk. I'm surprised the bug is so rare, I don't think I did anything super strange. Regards, James