Ubuntu Website - OBSOLETE

home folder should stay as home folder in a fresh install

Bug #157034 reported by pdlethbridge
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Ubuntu Website - OBSOLETE
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

Now when you install and after the Language, country and time zone screen there is the partition screen. Now I always manually partition when I install but When the screen comes up to list the partitions, they are not listed as / or home but are given sda1 or something similar. This would indicate that somewhere between the time you are running the OS, without the cd, and the install screen, the drive designations are changed. Why is this happening? If I have a 9 gig partition set as home it should be recognized as home in the new OS without me having to change it, unless I want to. I know you have to check the box if you want to format, but why do both / and home have to be reassigned as / and home in a manual install?

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Matthew East (mdke) wrote :

not a website bug

Changed in ubuntu-website:
status: New → Invalid
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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) wrote :

This is part of the spec https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/ubiquity-preserve-home

Changed in ubiquity:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
description: updated
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pdlethbridge (pdleth) wrote :

Thanks for the update on progress. I would like to add that some files in home, I do not know which ones, sometimes corrupt the new install. For instance, I freshly installed fiesty with no changes to the home directory, but I had serious problems with synaptic that were only resolved by removing personal files to another partition, removing the home directory, and recreating a new home directory with a fresh install of feisty, I then moved my files back to home and I was back to normal.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

I don't think this in fact has anything to do with the ubiquity-preserve-home specification. This is a request for default mountpoint assignments to be detected automatically.

I am inclined to say, though, that if you need this badly, you are not making very effective use of Ubuntu's built-in upgrade tools! Most people don't need to reinstall so frequently that having to assign mountpoints is a major hassle.

description: updated
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Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote :

This was a question rather than a bug report, and the answer is: because you are doing a manual install.

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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