Advantage of a separate /home partition?
andreas ott
ott at abanet.ch
Mon Jun 6 06:50:36 UTC 2005
all you have to do is add a line to your fstab after install and you
will be using your old home partition after the next boot.
/dev/<sd something> /home
atze.
On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 11:31 -0400, alex wrote:
> I recently asked about the advantage of having /home on a separate
> partition and was told that in the event ubuntu had to be reinstalled
> for whatever reason, you wouldn't lose the data you had accumulated
> in /home.
>
> Then, while I was installing ubuntu, I noticed that you can create
> a /home partition as part of the installation. This brings up a
> question -----
>
> If you previously had a /home partition and needed to do a ubuntu
> reinstall, how do you prevent losing the original /home partition data
> during the reinstall process?
>
> It seems to me that you still have to include the old /home partition
> in the reinstallation but if you did, it would be formatted and you'd
> lose the old data.
>
> If you didn't include it in the reinstallation, you'd end up with a new
> 'home' directory in the system root and you wouldn't have access to the
> old /home partition.
>
> What am I missing? Is there some way to include the old /home partition
> in the reinstall without reformatting it?
>
> alex, the OF
>
>
>
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