Separate /home partition

[NoOp]

On 11/13/2010 12:20 PM, Alan Pope wrote:
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> 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.

Actually that's close, but not entirely correct; the manual installer
will maintain /opt files folders as well as several others (can't
recalled exactly just which ones at the moment, but I do know that /opt
doesn't get touched.