https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=249380#c20
--- Comment #20 from Richard Creighton
Since 10.3 development is over now, I will implement code in STABLE (while will become next openSuSE/SLES release) that look at the fs intended to be used for /home and suppresses formatting if heuristics indicate it is a valid /home filesystem.
I still consider this a bogus feature since it involves mounting a potetially large filesystem with unknown content and state. If the filesystem happens to be dirty, the log replay alone may take minutes and there is no save way to prevent these minutes to be wasted, but in the end it is probably less time consuming to implement that stuff than to discuss this forever.
I suggest then making a pop-up dialog when this occurs and let the operator make the decision. There are already many delays in the installation but one the operator is willing to make is one that saves time in the long run and reconstruction of data structures inadvertently erased or formatted takes longer than remounting a dirty partition and by asking you have alerted the operator and if there is a delay, he also now knows the reason. If they don't want to save the existing data/structure, proceed as you currently propose to do. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.