<i>>Gutsy won't<br>>automatically recognize and use your /home partition (unless you're<br>>upgrading, I guess); you need to tell it.<br><br>Sounds easy enough, but how do I do that ? <br><br>Thanks!<br><br>
<br></i><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 12, 2007 4:43 PM, David L. Willson <<a href="mailto:DLWillson@thegeek.nu">DLWillson@thegeek.nu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Good idea, if you understand what you're doing. AFAIK, Gutsy won't<br>automatically recognize and use your /home partition (unless you're<br>upgrading, I guess); you need to tell it.<br><br>If I was you, I would get a bigger stick and tar up my home-folder.
<br>Alternately, use 7zip or arj to make backup volumes that fit onto<br>whatever media you have available (stick, CDR, DVDR, or whatever). Then<br>TEST those backups and do a clean install and restore data as desired.<br>
It's not simple, but it's less complex than moving an existing system to<br>multiple partitions.<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 16:25 -0700, Ryan Taylor wrote:<br>> I'm about to switch over to Gutsy (I'm embarrassed to say I'm still
<br>> running Edgy...), and I've decided to do a "clean" install (I've<br>> mucked around with more things than I should have over the previous<br>> months). However I have limited thumb-drive space to make easy to
<br>> reload my /home folder...<br>><br>> In my currently setup I have three partitions (swap, / , and a ntfs<br>> partition I've been using for music). Can I use GParted or something<br>> to go ahead and create a separate /home partition in Edgy, move (or
<br>> copy) my "home" files into it, and then go through the Gutsy CD<br>> install and it recognize and use my newly formed /home partition?<br>><br>> Bad or good idea??<br>><br>> I didn't see a good answer on the forums, so I though I'd turn to the
<br>> list...<br>><br>> thanks in advance,<br>> Ryan<br>><br>><br><br><br></div></div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">--<br>Ubuntu-us-co mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-co@lists.ubuntu.com">
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