Separate /home partition

Cybe R. Wizard cyber_wizard at mindspring.com
Sat Nov 13 22:26:10 UTC 2010


On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 20:20:55 +0000
Alan Pope <popey at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 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.

Maybe I'm just a Luddite, but I still don't trust that (although
I /did/ note it some time back). I'll keep my /home partition, thank
you.

It's just easy.

Cybe R. Wizard
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