Ubuntu
partman-auto package

  1. Bug #195608
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 195608

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Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) wrote :

I am inclined to close this bug as fix-released.

partman-auto: gained automatically_partition/reuse & automatically_partition/replace strategies back in 2011-02-11.

This is meant to be reinstall without changing disk partitioning while preserving (reuse) or not preservering (replace) user configuration for the squashfs based install media.

If these automatic-partitioning strategies not good enough for one reason or the other (e.g. it does too much or not enough preservation) then please open a new bug explaining your use case.

You can test the reuse method by following steps:
1) boot into 12.10 DVD
2) Do a full-disk install
3) Boot into installed system and do any changes you want to test.
4) boot into 12.10 DVD and select "Reinstall Ubuntu 12.10" option
5) Boot into installed system and check which desired/undesired changes got preserved or not.