Doing a clean install of 9.10

[Goh Lip]

Nigel Ridley wrote:
> So after reading that some on the list had problems with their upgrades, I've decided to do a 
> clean install of 9.10.
> 
> Not wanting to wipe my [separate] /home partition - how do I know which _is_ my /home partition?
> This might sound like a stupid question but there used to be a time when /home was on, say, hda5; 
> nowadays with all this uid (or whatever it's called) there is no hda5, hda1 etc. only [stupid] 
> unrecognizable too_long_for_humans_to_remember numbers!
> 
> So how do I format /root and not /home?
> 
> Blessings,
> 
> Nigel
> 
Nigel, I find it useful to label all the partitions. For /home, try not 
to label as 'Home', use House, Homer, Holm, Hot or whatever you like 
that you know it's /home. This will also appear in dolphin/konqueror and 
not just appear as sdax.

Regards,
Goh Lip