[15:58] <smagoun> I'm trying to install 10.10 on a disk that has /home on sda3. I want to redo the partition table from scratch, so when ubiquity starts I choose the 'manually partition' option. At some point between the 'choose partitioning method' screen and the 'allocate drive space' screen, the OS mounts sda3 on /home.
[15:58] <smagoun> As a result, when I try to create a new partition table on the disk, the installer complains that the table can't be written because one partition is in use. Is there a reason the installer mounts /home?
[16:02] <smagoun> ok, further testing suggests that /home can be mounted before I choose manual partitioning. Is this a safety measure to allow us to preserve the contents of /home?
[16:15] <ev> odd. It's probably not os-prober as it wouldn't mount it under home and would be using a new namespace anyway
[16:15] <ev> and it's not likely to be the desktop, as we're inhibiting udisks
[16:15] <ev> though that has needed some special attention in the past
[16:16] <ev> it's most certainly not a safety measure
[16:48] <superm1> persistence maybe?
[16:48] <superm1> if you've created the USB stick with it and made a change that caused /home to be mounted at some point
[16:50] <smagoun> It's a USB stick, but it's not set up for persistence