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[Tim Andersson <1993663@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The wording for this should be better. Perhaps the /home partition
should be formatted? I just tested removing the home partition and
putting it back when 'erasing' and it retains the data if not formatted.
Perhaps the instruction should say to format the /home partition, or
maybe in the second step instead of choosing 'Something else' the tester
should press the 'Erase and Reinstall' option instead, and not manually
partition the disk. Will look into it and improve the wording

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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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