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[Petar Sredojevic <petar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I just experienced a variation of this issue - my data was not wiped but
my partitions were resized and rearranged or merged, I can't say what
because I can't make sense of it.

In the installer, I was presented with the 'alongside' or 'replace'
options, and after choosing 'alongside' there was no warning, no
preview, or a way back. At this point I assumed that the installer would
show me a preview and hard-ask me to confirm at a later time, and at a
minimum that whatever it would do would be non-destructive, and there
was tons of unformatted space for it to use. This is a LTS after all.

My starting partitions were something along the lines of:

sda1 - 300mb - EFI
sda2 - 32gb - Fedora / (ext4)
sda3 - 128gb - /home(ext4)
sda4 - 8gb - swap
unpartitioned - ~80gb

I now have (taken from the Fedora install):

# lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda      8:0    0 238.5G  0 disk 
├─sda1   8:1    0   300M  0 part /boot/efi
├─sda2   8:2    0   125G  0 part /home
├─sda3   8:3    0  31.3G  0 part /
├─sda4   8:4    0   7.8G  0 part [SWAP]
└─sda5   8:5    0  74.1G  0 part

# fdisk -l
 
Disk /dev/sda: 238.5 GiB, 256060514304 bytes, 500118192 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 196DAE4C-D3BD-46CA-B561-BA945C76198E
 
Device           Start          End   Size Type
/dev/sda1         2048       616447   300M EFI System
/dev/sda2       616448    262760447   125G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda3    262760448    328296447  31.3G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda4    328296448    344680447   7.8G Linux swap
/dev/sda5    344680448    500117503  74.1G Linux filesystem

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Title:
  Install/reinstall wipes out all/other partitions

Status in elementary OS:
  New
Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “ubuntu-livecd-image” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “ubiquity” source package in Trusty:
  Triaged
Status in “ubuntu-livecd-image” source package in Trusty:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Brand new Samsung laptop with UEFI. I had installed 13.04 Ubuntu but on reboot I never saw the 'grub' style menu. It just kept going into Windows 8.1.  So I got the 13.10 version (64 bit) and choose "Reinstall Ubuntu" (That may not be the exact text)
  It removed all the partiions including the recovery partitions. I do have a backup for the windows install, but I was very surprised that this happened.
  On a positive note I now have Ububtu up and running on my machine. 
  This is not my first time with Ubuntu. I have installed Ubuntu alongside WinXp, Vista and Windows 7. I've used Ubuntu desktop for over 6 years.
  If you would like me to try something to replicate this. .. I could shrink my existing partion make another one - reinstall and see if it whacks that one. I can do this now .. I'm still moving into this laptop so starting over is not so bad.

  Steve Devine

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