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[Adrien Nader <1993663@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Description changed:

  testcase: "Install (erase and re-install) in Ubuntu Desktop amd64 in
  Kinetic Daily "
  
  The test is supposed to check that the /home filesystem has been wiped.
- I do not know if the new install is supposed to have a dedicated /home
- partition too. Note that the corresponding but that I encountered has
- existed since at least 20.04; I'm not sure when was the last release
- with a proper behaviour and therefore I cannot work backwards to
- describe that behaviour.
  
- Currently the test "passes" because the new installation doesn't use a
- dedicated /home partition and re-uses the / one ; therefore the new
- install cannot use the one that had been used by the first install.
- Since the test criteria is only that files created before are not
- visible anymore, the test is marked as passed while it should fail.
+ UPDATE: I made a mistake since I had missed something in the testcase near the end.
+ It is expected that the new installation doesn't re-use the /home partition from the first installation. However I also think the testcase should be improved by providing a way to check the data in the now-unused /home partition has been indeed deleted if that is indeed what is wanted.
  
- Improvements:
+ 
+ Possible mprovements:
  - after chosing to re-install, the installer displays what will be done to partitions: this should include formatting the previously-used /home partition (which requires remembering the partition numbers seen when partitioning for the first install),
- - check that 'df -h /home' outputs a 'mounted on' and a 'size' that match what is expected,
- - sudo 'fdisk -l /devb/sda' (or the appropriate disk, as used when doing the first install) and check that if a dedicated /home partition is not used by the second install, then the old /home partition has been removed,
- - if the new system isn't configured to use a dedicated partition, then try to mount the previous /home partition and if it doesn't fail, then 'ls' it to check that it is empty.
+ - try to mount the previous /home partition and if it doesn't fail, then 'ls' it to check that it is empty.

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Title:
  Reinstall+erase: unconfigured /home mount leads to false success.

Status in Ubuntu Manual Tests:
  New

Bug description:
  testcase: "Install (erase and re-install) in Ubuntu Desktop amd64 in
  Kinetic Daily "

  The test is supposed to check that the /home filesystem has been
  wiped.

  UPDATE: I made a mistake since I had missed something in the testcase near the end.
  It is expected that the new installation doesn't re-use the /home partition from the first installation. However I also think the testcase should be improved by providing a way to check the data in the now-unused /home partition has been indeed deleted if that is indeed what is wanted.

  
  Possible mprovements:
  - after chosing to re-install, the installer displays what will be done to partitions: this should include formatting the previously-used /home partition (which requires remembering the partition numbers seen when partitioning for the first install),
  - try to mount the previous /home partition and if it doesn't fail, then 'ls' it to check that it is empty.

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