Comment 32 for bug 234835

Solution 2 doesn't work : if the user chose a partition to be /home when there is already one called /home there will be two partition labeled /home. So, something wrong will happen.

I think it's a good opportunity to explain to user how he can restore his datas and what will happen. It is so much said it's a good idea to have 3 partitions (/, /home, swap) to install Ubuntu instead of 2 (/home, swap) because in this way you can save your personnal data when you reinstall, but it's very unclear how i would do it when I was face to it. I think, when you are right at the moment to install a new system, you need to have a maximum of info offline.

Things I didn't know :
- What about the user I had before, should I choose a new one (I think it's safer, but don't know)...
- If I chose the same, the password is different, what will happen, what with all those compatibilities problem for the applications, will the system try to fix them (let say I was on 8.10 and now I install 9.10), will it overwrite my settings.
- How can I access those old data, without touching to the partition at the installation, (everything was locked), (maybe the installer can rename the partition to /home_old (don't know)... so the new one can be installed without problem.

Trying to help.