[Bug 987956] Re: Installer Deletes Contents from Separate HOME partition without WARNING!

[Brian Murray]

I tried recreating this by installing oneiric with a separate home
partition and then installing precise without a separate home partition.
After booting my installed precise system I was able to mount my old
home partition and access the files in it.

Did you perhaps choose to use the same home partition and perhaps click
the format checkbox when installing Precise?

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  Installer Deletes Contents from Separate HOME partition without
  WARNING!

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I installed both Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 with a separate partition for
  the root and home directory. I chose to only partition the root
  directory.

  After installation, I always ended up with a HOME partition with
  deleted contents!  I just lost all the data therein without warning,
  which IMO is not something to take lightly.

  I can understand why it is necessary to restructure from scratch the
  HOME directory, but I see no reason whatsoever as to why the existing
  contents should not be backed up under a new directory ($HOME/OLD or
  whatever). Or at least informing the user about what is coming up
  before he finalizes his choice!

  Anyways, the whole Idea with a separate HOME partition is to be able to reinstall distributions without having to backup your data. If the Installer cannot be 100%
  trusted about not messing with your files, backing it up is unavoidable, and a
  separate HOME partition is rendered more or less useless...

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: ubiquity (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu5
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Apr 24 20:57:18 2012
  InstallCmdLine: noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true persistent file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120423)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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