Strange behaviour from Xenial installer

[Girard Henri]

I always make a swap partition and / partition.

For years I never had a problem : simple quick and efficient.

I remenber the old days where people said a lot of partition but that 
was good because hdd was not big !



Le 23/08/2016 à 20:08, Nils Kassube a écrit :
> O. Sinclair wrote:
>> I am close to giving up. For whatever reason the upgrade route via
>> 15.04 and so on always crashes. Decided to fresh 16.04.1 install.
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>> I have separate / and /home partitions, both ext4. Here comes the
>> problem: the installer insist that my /home is ext2 and whatever I set
>> it to wants to format it. No thank you...
> I would install without the separate /home partition. Then there is a
> /home in the / partition (which is needed anyway as a mount point).
> After the install is completed you could then write your own fstab entry
> for the separate /home partition.
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> Nils
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