On 9/1/2021 11:39 PM, Tim via users wrote:
If you create a partition and format it (whatever filesystem you format it with), the Linux installer sees that space as used and unavailable (whether, or not, there is any data in that partition), and will want to use something else to install to. New hard drives do not come formatted. If you're sharing the drive with other installations, then do not erase the whole drive - you'll remove those other installation. Remove the spare partition you made, leave that part of the drive empty. Do not create a new partition, do not do any formatting. Leave the space unused. If you're not sharing the drive with anything else, do that to the entire drive. Gparted does not make you create partitions. Sure it might prompt you to make one as the next step, but you don't have to.
Thank you. That's exactly clear and what I needed to know. I've been playing in the
Linux world for quite a while, and this is the first time I ran into this situation.
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