My problem occurred with a new installation of Mint 13 KDE. This option did not appear in the drop down menu of this bugtracker.
During installation, I selected manual partitioning. My intent was to do a new install of Linux Mint 13 KDE over the top of an existing install of Linux Mint 12 KDE, and I made all the appropriate menu selections. The resulting partition table looked like this: sda1 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE sda2 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT sda3 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS sda4 5 Extended sda5 b W95 FAT32 sda6 83 Linux sda7 82 Linux swap / Solaris sda8 83 Linux sda9 83 Linux sda6 set to mount as / sda8 set to mount as /usr sda9 set to mount as /home The only thing I did out of the ordinary was that I did not check any partitions to be formatted. When I clicked OK, a notice box popped up saying that I had not selected to format sda6 or sda8, and that all data would be lost on those partitions. It allowed me to click "OK", or "Cancel". I clicked OK. The result was that my / partition was NOT formatted, but my /home partition WAS formatted. As this was an emergency install, and I have had zero problems in the past, I violated my own rule and did not backup my /home partition prior to the install. My most recent backup was in February, with a lot of changes since then, so I am deeply saddened and disappointed. No one's fault but my own. But I need to get this message out in the hope of saving others from the same fate. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/889799 Title: Setup formated home partition without flag set to do that To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/889799/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
