[ubuntu-uk] 12.04 oddities

[Neil Greenwood]

Since 8.04 I think, if you choose not to format and install over your
previous partition, the /home directory will be left intact.

Neil.

P.S. Sorry for the top-post and brevity, this is typed on my phone.
On May 1, 2012 10:20 AM, "paul sutton" <zleap at zleap.net> wrote:

> On 01/05/12 02:20, Roy Jamison wrote:
> >
> > I think what we're trying to say is maybe it's time to upgrade ;)
> >
> > On May 1, 2012 12:13 AM, "Alan Pope" <alan.pope at canonical.com
> <mailto:alan.pope at canonical.com>> wrote:
> >
> > On 30/04/12 11:20, paul sutton wrote:
> > > on the partition page i choose set up and tried to partition as
> > > follows
> >
> > > / 50mb
> >
> > That's not big enough.
> >
> > > /home 100mb
> >
> > Neither is that. Also, why have a separate home?
> >
> > > swap 10mb
> >
> >
> > Nor is that big enough.
> >
> > Cheers,
>
>
> Ok all that should be GB,   so its a 160gb hard disk,   what my question
> was is why would it not let me create a 100 gb partition and made it 110
> gb,  when i told it to make it 100gb,   so I had space at the end for
> the 10gb swap partition.
>
> Anyway 12.04 is up and running,  i need to get wireless working,   so
> not sure why when I am sure it worked out of the box with 11.10,  and
> below.
>
> Separate home, i was under the impression this made life easier and was
> the right way to do things (been using linux for years), if I want to
> wipe / later on and install something else, I can do, and it will leave
> /home intact and not wipe the data from it,
>
>
> Paul
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