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| Shekhar (pythonic) wrote 10.04 Install formatted ext3 partition (data lost) | #0 |
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I have installed 10.04 yesterday. My system already had running 9.10 with following partitions.
/ (ext4)
/home (ext3)
While installing I chose to format / and not to format /home but chosen wrong partition type for /home i.e. ext4. Install was smooth but I realized that installer actually had formatted (or converted ?) my ext3 /home to ext4 /home wiping out all the data. I think even if I have specified ext4 by mistake, why should installer format my partition when I have specifically not asked for it. At the most it should try to mount it as ext4 and the bell out.
I don't know what would you do in order to fix this but it would be great help if there is a way to undo this. This has hit more people I guess, see http://
Thanks for all the good work guys but this particularly is very scary.