This bug is actually from zorin 17 until now, as well as on Linux Mint. I guess it's from the upstream source. I was trying to create two encrypted partitions, one for root, one for /home. So after search the internet I have learnt that I need to create an efi partition, a /boot partition, an encrypted partition for root, and an encrypted partition for /home. The steps are as below:
- When select disk lay out, select "Something else" to manually partition the disk.
- Create a 512mb efi partition sda1.
- Create a 3gb /boot ext4 partition sda2. It's marked to be Formatted by default.
- Create a 50gb encrypted partition sda3, the installer will create it and show a luks crypto_sda3 volume, select it and use it as root. It will be marked for formatting be default.
- Create a 100gb encrypted partition sda4, the installer will create it and show a luks crypto_sda4 volume, select it and use it as /home. It will be marked for formatting be default.
- Click the Install button, the system will show a popup message showing what will be created and formatted. The bug is here: there is only two partitions showing to be formatted. (it should be 3 partitions need to be formatted: /boot, /, /home)
- If you click continue (or something similar, can't remember exactly) the installer will go to partition the disk and return an error, installation can't be done, something wrong. It actually is because one of the partition is not formatted.
This is happening from Zorin 17 to 18, Linux Mint 21 to 22.3 (maybe even older versions). Tried it on multiple hardware and virtualbox vms, but all the same.
Hope it can be fixed. Thanks very much.