On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 22:41:14 +0000 Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So - if you want to format an existing partition properly, so the > stuff on it actually goes, use Gparted not the partitioner in the > Jessie installer. Sad. Is it possible for the d-i partitioning utility to sometimes make mistakes when creating a new FS (I have only observed this with ext4, if it even happened at all and was not a product of my imagination) and somehow leave files from the old FS in the new over-riding FS if the two are in the same partition? Sometimes after over-writing an old ext4 partition with a new ext4 partition of the same size and location, mysterious files have appeared in the new FS which should not exist, but existed in the previous instance; "ghost files" if you will.
