re-install

[Liam Proven]

On 18 March 2013 13:32, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 18 March 2013 11:39, Ash Wyllie <ashwmls at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've just re-installed Ubuntu. Before I started I backed up /home/user
>> to an external drive. I then copied the backup to /home on the new
>> system.
>
> Did you backup the hidden folders (.local etc)?
>
> Did you restore the hidden folders?

Those are really good questions - I forgot that crucial detail.

> For future reference, if you install ubuntu over the top of an
> existing ubuntu installation and go through the "something else"
> option in the installer, then select the existing partition to install
> into, but do /not/ select Format for that partition, then Ubuntu will
> be installed over the existing version but will leave /home alone
> (even if it is not a separate partition).

This is true, yes, but that doesn't help you go from a
single-partition installation to a separate-/home one.



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