Converting ext3 to ext4 resulting in loss of data?

[Fajar Priyanto]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 3:22 AM, ms <devicerandom at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/08/10 13:40, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>> I do a fresh install of Lucid on my Karmic. Preserving /home
>> partition, but converting it from ext3 to ext4.
>> After the installation all of the data in /home is gone.
>> I thought converting ext3 to ext4 won't result in such case?
>> Thank you.
>>
>
> Sorry if it sounds silly but... didn't you tell the installer to
> *reformat* the partition, did you?

No. I'm sure that I saw the format tickbox is unchecked on /home