Bug ID 1090383
Summary Installer proposes to delete a 2TB partition to create a home partition - should the default not be to preserve existing?
Classification openSUSE
Product openSUSE Distribution
Version Leap 15.0
Hardware Other
OS Other
Status NEW
Severity Normal
Priority P5 - None
Component Installation
Assignee yast2-maintainers@suse.de
Reporter okurz@suse.com
QA Contact jsrain@suse.com
Found By ---
Blocker ---

## Observation

Starting a Leap 15.0 installation the installer proposes to delete my 2TB data
and home partition to create a home partition instead. I consider this a
dangerous choice as data could be lost.

## Expected result

Of course, this is always a risk when conducting an installation but I would
assume that the installer tries to only find space for the root filesystem -
which it did, but also proposed to delete a very big data partition on a second
hard disk drive, which would not have been necessary to install.

I would expect one or multiple of the following:

* only the first disk is touched to look for space by default
* partitions that are not necessarily needed for root or home are not touched
by default
* existing partitions which are very big - most likely important data
partitions - are not touched by default to be on the safe side


## Further details

This "bug" has been observed by multiple persons and was also received as
openSUSE community feedback so not only me.


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