Hi, and thanks for your report.
Rolandas Naujikas <rol...@gmail.com> (2015-03-29): > Package: installation-reports > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** > > * What led up to the situation? > > Reinstall to the same partition. > > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or > ineffective)? > > Choose the same partition to (re)format and install into. > > * What was the outcome of this action? > > I have to Alt+F2 and do mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda6. It gives me question about > existent file system and I answered Y to format it. > Killed hang mkfs.ext4 process and continued successfully installation without > reformating this partition. > > * What outcome did you expect instead? > > Should debian installer confirm reformating of existent file system > (destroying > its data) ? > Should it pass and answer automatically, because I already accepted that ? We've had some bug reports about this topic. The last time it popped up, I mention I'd test a fix for this (adding the force flag to the mkfs calls), but I didn't find time to do so before RC2. I've added a note about this topic on my RC3 to-do list. Mraw, KiBi.
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