Comment 2 for bug 387692

Don't know if this is related but i'm trying to figure out why karmic is unable to create ext4 on several older drives (6.4 to 10 GB)

On the other hand, Jaunty installs just fine on those drives but when i boot up from a karmic live CD, then the karmic live CD is not able to read ext3 partition, it detects sda but not the actual partitions sda1 and the sda5 swap.

And another thing: when i want mount a drive that i tried to partition with the karmic installer (i386 desktop, alternat and server all the same) then those drives appear to have a bad superblock and are not accessible from ANY system (Ubuntu 8.04 to 9.10, windows xp, and even with tools like on the ultimate boot cd i'm not able to fix the bad superblock)

But for some magical reason that i don't understand, i can use a jaunty live CD and install ubuntu (while loosing all the data) and the bad superblock appears to be fixed.

And another thing... I also lost a partition on a external harddrive (also bad superblock..) ext3 partition that got lost while working with a ubuntu karmic install. I'm becoming a bit paranoia of these issues, and i hope it is just coincidence, but something tells me there is more to it and maybe i better go back to jaunty untill i see this fixed.

A personal note: i think it was a bad choice to choose for ext4 beta and grub2 beta together on this release. It works, but i doubt it's stability. And i'm missing an EASY way to CHOOSE during the install to use ext3 and grub0.95 INSTEAD of ext4 and grub2. Infact i would have preferred ext3 and grub0.95 still as default until ext4 and grub2 are out of beta and STABLE.
(a bit more like Debian)

Is this post enough to get this looked at or should i post a new bug report?