Home partition install problem

[Speedwagon]

I have my home directory setup on a seperate drive(sdb), and Ubuntu installs on sda. Everything has been hunky-dory for the last couple times I installed Ubuntu(clean install), but this last time it wasn't so ok. When I went to select sdb as the /home directory, it wouldn't just let me select it. It wanted to format the drive, which was not so ok, so I didn't select sdb as the home drive. How do I fix this, and why wouldn't it let me simply select sdb for /home? I haven't installed anything yet, so I don't have a problem re-installing if that is the easiest way. And this is 10.10, from a DVD I burned.

[dino99]

in case you need a standard scheme:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10161428&postcount=2

when you make a fresh install or a dist-upgrade, and dont select your /home, the installer will automatically find it, so no worry too much.

The question is: why it wants to format it, which is his actual format (might be ext3 or ext4)

[Speedwagon]

in case you need a standard scheme:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10161428&postcount=2

when you make a fresh install or a dist-upgrade, and dont select your /home, the installer will automatically find it, so no worry too much.

The question is: why it wants to format it, which is his actual format (might be ext3 or ext4)

ext4 is what all my drives are formated in.

[dino99]

so go aheah without selecting /home (stay safe, after installation you always can run fsck on reboot by: sudo shutdown now -R)