No, it was unclear which precise set of circumstances caused mke2fs to
not be happy. I tried a bunch of different alternatives from comments
here when I said I could not reproduce it, that's because I hadn't hit
the right set of circumstances: it's definitely not just randomly using
fdisk or parted to create a partition table, people don't go around
doing that themselves: they were hitting an issue related to the general
partitioning scheme, either as done by us or as done by Windows, or even
by something else (and in fact, is probably simply because of how the
extended partitions work).
Still, regardless of the reason, there was never a question that adding
-F would work; I just like to really understand what is happening before
applying fixes rather than blindly doing something and hoping it will
work.
** Changed in: partman-ext3 (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (mathieu-tl)
** Changed in: partman-ext3 (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => In Progress
** Summary changed:
- Ubiquity freezes while reformatting occupied partition
+ mke2fs asks for input when formatting over a partition table
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