Will It be good to migrate from ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10?

Nils Kassube kassube at gmx.net
Mon Oct 26 08:31:09 UTC 2009


Tim Frost wrote:
> 3: do a clean install of the new release
>
> Obviously, options 1 and 2 will preserve configuration information
> but option 3 will lose all configuration (except that user data,
> including configuration, may be preserved if /home is on its own
> partition and that partition is not formatted).

If you do a clean install you don't need a separate /home partition to 
preserve user data. The installer has an option to preserve existing 
data in /home and possibly /usr/local.


Nils





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