On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 01:05:00PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 09:57:58AM +0200, David Prieto wrote: > > Hi Colin, > > > I presume that you did not instruct the installer to format the old > > > /home partition? (If you did, then why?) > > > > Actually yes, and I never realised how dumb it was until I read your > > message. I just was used to formatting before installing, so I guess I > > never gave it any thought. > > Ah, OK. (I think this problem goes away once people stop being educated > to explicitly format partitions that they want to keep.)
I should also point out (because I gave out misinformation on IRC in a moment of inattention) that this only works when you're using the manual partitioner and select a partition to mount as /, or equivalent. If you use the automatic partitioner and select "use entire disk", then that's equivalent to wiping the whole drive and starting again. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
