<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.28.3"> </HEAD> <BODY> <BR> <BR> On Sun, 2010-11-14 at 00:04 +0000, Alan Pope wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> On 13 November 2010 22:42, <<A HREF="mailto:bodsda@googlemail.com">bodsda@googlemail.com</A>> wrote: > I'm gonna have to run through the installer again then, because I don't remember seeing it automatically ask me about /home, It doesn't ask you about /home at all. It's a kinda hidden feature. > and if you were doing it manually and didn't specify a mount point for /home and didn't format / then would anything actually happen? > If you were doing manual partitioning over the top of an existing linux install (i.e. a filesystem exists which contains /bin /etc /var /usr /home and so on, and you choose not to format that filesystem, and you choose to install on it, then it will recursively delete all files in /bin /etc /var /usr and so on, but _not_ touch /home within that filesystem. I find myself explaining this to people about once a month. It's such a hidden gem of a feature so many people don't know about it, but it's the single most useful "upgrade without upgrading" feature. Al. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> I found out by accident cos I had /home on a separate partition in the old-fashioned way - but still didn't know you could still do it with /home on the root partition - it's a very useful tip so maybe put a how-to on the web and then you'll only have to post the link <IMG SRC="cid:1289823306.14324.0.camel@fbterm" ALIGN="middle" ALT=":)" BORDER="0"> <BR> <BR> Paula </BODY> </HTML>