Keep diskdata while installing

[Alan Pope]

On 28 February 2011 17:51, Amedee Van Gasse <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be> wrote:
> On Mon, February 28, 2011 10:12, Reinhard Hnat wrote:
>> I had a problem while updating my Ubuntu server to Version 10.04. Now it
>> is not able to boot and I think i have to install it for new. Is there a
>> possibility to not have disk new partitioned and formatted?
>
> If you have partitioned your hard disk at the first installation, and for
> example /home is on a different partition, then you can choose to only
> format / and keep /home.
>

Even if you haven't got a separate /home you can reinstall over the
top by simply choosing manual partitioning, and _not_ format the /
partition. It will delete everything except /home and install a new
clean system.

I was happy to learn that this feature will be made a lot more obvious in Natty.

Al.