On Friday 26 of September 2025 07:28:17 J Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote:
No Debian installer has ever prevented me from creating non-standard mount points and choosing existing filesystems to mount there, much less forcing format of existing filesystems with data on them. Debian is neither Mint nor Ubuntu, not filled with kitchen sink junk. It's fully capable of doing what /needs/ doing.
Well, the YaST Partitioner, until the last few releases, allowed me to define mount points for pre-existing encrypted partitions, merely asking for the key when "Encrypt" was checked, but now it doesn't, which IMO is a strange "improvement;" thus my question.
I normally use the Debian installer in variant netinst and in expert mode. In such a case, it is possible to select to mount any partitions to any location and for existing partitions it is no problem to leave existing data - define mount point without the need for formatting.
Cheers Slávek --