Warty : reinstalling, quick question...

Vincent Trouilliez vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr
Sun Mar 13 09:18:07 UTC 2005


> I sure that you can reuse your existing home partition and keep all the 
> data you have in it.  I can't remember the exact way you do this in 
> Ubuntu, but most distributions have you select what partition you want 
> as root and where you want to mount all the other partitions.  Note that 
> this step comes after the disk has been partitioned, so if you are not 
> going to change the size of any partition, you don't have to run the 
> partition tool.
> 
> Select the partition you use as /home and select the 'do not format' option.
> 
> It's a good idea to print (or write down) all the mount points you're 
> using in the current install.  IE: /dev/hda1 on root, /dev/hda2 on /usr, 
> etc.

Thanks Ed, I think I can proceed now... see you in 30 minutes if all
goes well ;o)


--
Vince





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