As a reaction to the previous 2 comments (#13 and #14), and as I have been personally frustrated myself with this error related to *buntu's installer unable to reuse an existing JFS /home partition, here's my hint on what it *should* usually do the trick when this happens.
1. Boot the LiveCD of your preferred flavor of *buntu/Mint, or any other LiveCD who has jfsutils -- you'll need either "fsck.jfs" or "jfs_fsck" (it's the same thing).
2. Make sure the JFS partition is *not* mounted.
3. Run whatever of the following two works -- assuming /dev/sda3 is the JFS home partition:
jfs_fsck /dev/sda3
or:
fsck.jfs /dev/sda3
4. Now try to mount the partition -- make sure the mounting point exist or replace it accordingly:
mount -t jfs /dev/sda3 /mnt/sda3
If you can cd to the mounted partition and the contents is fine, Ubuquity should be able to install and make use of it (you can umount it back).
As a reaction to the previous 2 comments (#13 and #14), and as I have been personally frustrated myself with this error related to *buntu's installer unable to reuse an existing JFS /home partition, here's my hint on what it *should* usually do the trick when this happens.
1. Boot the LiveCD of your preferred flavor of *buntu/Mint, or any other LiveCD who has jfsutils -- you'll need either "fsck.jfs" or "jfs_fsck" (it's the same thing).
2. Make sure the JFS partition is *not* mounted.
3. Run whatever of the following two works -- assuming /dev/sda3 is the JFS home partition:
jfs_fsck /dev/sda3
or:
fsck.jfs /dev/sda3
4. Now try to mount the partition -- make sure the mounting point exist or replace it accordingly:
mount -t jfs /dev/sda3 /mnt/sda3
If you can cd to the mounted partition and the contents is fine, Ubuquity should be able to install and make use of it (you can umount it back).