[DC LoCo] Likely an embarassing personal problem...

[Jeremy Bicha]

On 5 June 2011 10:10, Jobuntu LLC <jobuntu2 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I've gotten in the habit of keeping my /home directory on a separate partition to facilitate a clean install (after a few weeks of testing the latest upgrade on vbox).  (One could also mv /home to a separate partition before a clean install.)  I started doing this because upgrades take 4evah (meaning an hour or more), while a clean install (manually setting up partitions in install without formatting the /home partition) takes less than a half hour.

Ubuntu can do a clean install on a unified / partition and keep the
/home directory. Just don't tell the installer to format the
partition. It works very well. You should try it out.

Jeremy Bicha