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I am trying to install ubuntu 20.04 server. While in the «Storage configuration» step, among the «available devices» I want to delete a partition. That partition is labelled as such: partition 7 existing, already formatted as ext4, not mounted.

When I press the space bar on that partition, I get a window where I have to choose between close, Edit, Delete *.

When I choose delete I get the following message: Cannot delete a single partition from device that already has partitions.

When I press the Edit option, I have a Format option from where I can choose the file system I want to format the partition with ext4, xfs, btrfs, swap. None of those options allow me to format. Below are some pictures for illustration purpose.

How to delete that partition? Thank you.

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There's a subiquity bug about this, and it looks like the installer doesn't support deleting partitions.

Your options are to erase entire disk and create partitions from scratch, or switch to a different console (Alt+F2) and use a different partitioning tool (parted, cfdisk).

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  • I already tried the cfdisk option, but was not able to format. How the subiquity bug report helps?
    – cProg
    Commented Jun 8, 2021 at 8:42

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