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[Peter Schachte <1099081@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What I did was perhaps a bit harder to test in a VM.  My situation was
that I had a separate disk (one big partition) mounted as
/var/lib/mythtv, and a separate partition mounted at
/var/lib/mythtv/videos.  The installation of mythbuntu 12.04 preserved
my /etc/fstab, including these mounts, but deleted everything but dot
files in those two partitions.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1099081

Title:
  Installing Mythbuntu 12.04 preserved the myth database, but deleted
  all recordings, videos, photos and music

Status in Mythbuntu, Ubuntu derivative focused upon MythTV:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I had a mythbuntu 10.10 (or so) install.  After carefully backing up
  my myth database, I used a USB key to install mythbuntu 12.04 over top
  of my old system, selecting the installation option to preserve the
  myth database, as well as all my media, and only upgrade the OS and
  myth system.  However, the mythbuntu install procedure preserved my
  /etc/fstab file, and then deleted all files in
  /var/lib/mythtv/{recordings,videos,pictures,music}, which were on
  separate partitions from the root partiion.  I know it deleted the
  files (rather than reformatting the partitions) because one directory
  with a name beginning with dot was still there, so the contents must
  have been removed with something like rm -rf /var/lib/mythtv/videos.
  There's not much point in preserving the metadata about recordings,
  videos, etc. in the database when the media it refers to going to be
  deleted.

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