Feature suggestions: optionally placing home folder into separate partition during ubuntu install

[Robert Holtzman]

On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 04:19:54PM -0600, Charlie Kravetz wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 14:45:48 -0700
> Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net> wrote:

             .........snip.........

> 
> > As you would if you chose to do a fresh install or to install a different
> > distro.
> > 
> 
> I believe the default now is to not format on a fresh install. You have
> to actually tell it to do the format, otherwise, it simply erases
> the /etc and other root partitions and runs the install on top of the
> installed release. That way /home does not get erased.

Is that unique to ubuntu or to debian based distros or to all linux
distros?

-- 
Bob Holtzman
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