I can confirm this affected me. I installed to a system with some disks pre-encrypted - an old /home which I was going to migrate to a new larger disk and some other data partitions. I also created some new encrypted data partitions on the large disk in preparation.
I assigned the encrypted partitions a mount point (/data, etc), expecting the installer to ask for the encryption password at some point I specifically did not ask it to do any formatting. On starting the install, the encrypted partitions were re-formatted and all the data lost. Of course, I had a backup, but I ended up with a number of unecrypted partitions (other than home, which I chose to re-encrypt once I'd realised what had happened). I can see that I made a mistake in assigning a filesystem type (ext4), expecting that the installer would want to know the underlying filesystem, but there should definitely be a warning before destroying data when the format flag is not set. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1066480 Title: 12.10 installer don't show encrypted partitions To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-release-notes/+bug/1066480/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
