Comment # 35 on bug 1093372 from Josef Reidinger

(In reply to Ancor Gonzalez Sosa from comment #34)
> (In reply to Petr Mladek from comment #32)
> > 
> > I am in the scared more back again. OK, let me ask:
> > 
> > 1. Will /home get formatted on a fresh installation?
> 
> As I read your question, you seem to expect the installer to recognize
> preexisting /home partitions (from a previous installation) and then either
> reuse such partition as /home for the new installation or at least avoid to
> delete such partition.
> 
> As far as I know, the installer has never done that as part of the automated
> partitioning proposal.
> 
> By default we don't inspect the content of the existing Linux partitions
> trying to guess their former role (neither to keep them or to reuse them).
> We just try to make enough space for the new system by resizing or deleting
> the existing Windows or Linux partitions, that's all we do and, as far as I
> know, all what we have ever done. There is no specific logic (and has never
> been, as far as I'm aware) to preserve your pre-existing /home. The existing
> Linux partitions will be deleted if we need the disk space they are using,
> no matter if they are a former "/" or a former "/home", "/var" or whatever.

I think that maybe question is related to "import mount points" option that
allows to read partitioning and I think it is less aggressive in cleaning. But
it is not done automatic.