Comment # 34 on bug 1093372 from Ancor Gonzalez Sosa

(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.