Missing Functionality in New Anaconda

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 01:59:37PM +0000, Dave Cross wrote:
> I have a separate /home partition which contains all of my important
> data. Therefore I want to do a new installation of Fedora 18 but reuse
> the existing /home partition. In the old Anaconda that was simple. I'd
> just use set up a customised partition layout, telling it to reuse the
> /home partition and to do what it wanted with the rest of the disk.
> But I can't work out how to do that on the new version of Anaconda.
> The new partitioning sets up this artificial distinction between the
> old Fedora 17 installation and the new Fedora 18 one and I can't see
> how to tell the new installation to use a partition from the old one.
> I accept that this probably isn't a really common use case, but it
> seems a shame to lose functionality that some of your users are using.

Actually, I think this is a *very* important use case, and one you've
explained well. In fact, I wouldn't mind a checkbox that tells the installer
to just do exactly what you've said. I don't see anything in Bugzilla about
this -- can you file an RFE bug? The developers will not see your message on
this list.

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