Comment # 8 on bug 995816 from Freek de Kruijf

(In reply to Freek de Kruijf from comment #7)
> The problem is also present in Leap 42.2 RC2 on a clean installation.

I should add to this that I copied the user from a, at that moment, still
present old openSUSE system, which was wiped out in the installation. The whole
disk, at least all linux partitions, were wiped out and the freed space
completely reused in the installation.