Comment 51 for bug 1265192

I always partition a drive into "/" and "/home" so I can perform fresh installs when upgrading to a new system

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when installing Mint (Ubuntu) I had a similar experience as others here:

I had Mint 17 MATE 32 bit running on my laptop but wanted to roll back an earlier version (Mint 14 MATE 32 bit) and install it on my "/" partition

I selected "other" from the install menu/wizard and carefully chose the option that I thought would install Mint on only the "/" root partition of my drive - leaving the other partitions alone

upon booting up I discovered that Mint replaced my "/home" directory with a new users directory, i.e. empty versions of my Desktop, Documents, Music, Photos, Videos, etc directories

I've been using Ubuntu since 2006 and have upgraded (until 10.10) by doing fresh installs to my "/" partition many times and keeping my "/home" directory intact

I find this to be a rather serious bug - something has changed in the installer that needs to be fixed