I really couldn't disagree more. To not have such a trivial option as to retain data on a partition is way too extreme a measure to ensure a clean install. You mention there is no way to do this in general? How about when the installer is about to create any system directory, it first issues a rm cmd to delete whatever dir it's about to create. How could this miss any rubbish?
I mentioned on ubuntu forums and I was informed 'it's not a bug it's a feature'. This really puts the ubuntu gui installer behind a typical feature that other os's have. How could the situation of a user having lots of data on a partition and wanting to retain that without further splitting there partitions be considered rare, especially in this day of large drives. -- herd2 gui installer forces format of partition https://launchpad.net/bugs/80793 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
