Separate /home partition

[Alan Pope]

On 13 November 2010 19:52, Mark <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ah, well, I was going to point out that the biggest advantage to a
> separate /home is that when you update or upgrade to a newer release
> of the same OS, you don't have to worry about losing all your /home
> data even if you have to reinstall the OS.  I went through that going
> from CentOS 4 to 5 and it was nice not to have to be picky and careful
> with /home when I overwrote /boot and /.
>

You don't have to have a separate /home partition to reinstall and not
lose your data in /home. A standard Ubuntu install from the live cd
has (for some time now) supported the ability to choose 'manual
partition' and so long as you don't tick 'format' the installer will
delete everything _except_ the contents of /home before doing the
install.

Cheers,
Al.