Ubiquity - setting a separate /home by default

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 00:33 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:51:29PM +0200, David Prieto wrote:
> > Hi again,
> > 
> > > > Ubiquity can now install onto a partition that has an existing home
> > > > directory without deleting it. It just removes the system directories.
> > 
> > Do you have to do anything special for that to work? I usually keep
> > my /home in a separate partition, but I have another partition with some
> > spare gigs to try Intrepid. This morning I reinstalled Ubuntu in that
> > partition and it destroyed the previous /home folder.
> 
> I presume that you did not instruct the installer to format the old
> /home partition? (If you did, then why?)
> 
> If not, then that's a very serious bug. Please report it as soon as
> possible with all relevant details, including /var/log/installer/syslog
> and /var/log/installer/partman.

The paragraph quoted says that the partition into which Intrepid was
installed had a /home *folder* not *partition*.  It was said in response
to someone saying that a separate partition is not needed because the
installer no longer destroys /home directories inside the / partition.
Obviously, the installer did delete the /home directory and not just the
system directory.

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
apt-get moo
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