Comment 3 for bug 133343

For systems with a seperate home partition, it would be good if one of the options presented initially would be something like "Re-install/upgrade system, keeping existing home folder/user data", which if chosen, should then automatically use the same partition mounting/mappings as the previous installation did. Some care/warnings would have to be presented depending on whether the user has a seperate home partition (and if not advised that they will LOSE all data if they proceed with a single partition reinstalltion, together with the advice that an "upgrade" may be performed from the operating system itself, not the LiveCD.) Additionally, the "manual partitioner" should ideally always default to picking the correct mount points for a pre-existing system, and not mount the old root, boot, home etc under "media."

The reason I'm suggesting these changes is that I've been reinstalling fairly regularly lately testing various things, and so have a seperate home partition to prevent it from being blown away on reinstall. The only annoying thing here was that due to the "manual" installer choosing mount points under /media by default, I have to manually go and edit them to point to the right places again every time.