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[Colin Law]

On Fri, 24 Sept 2021 at 12:09, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 23 Sept 2021 at 10:20, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > If /home is in the / partition rather than a partition of its own
> > then, when installing the new version, tell it which partition to use
> > for / but tell it *not* to format it.  Then it should leave /home as
> > is, only overwriting the system stuff.
>
> This is true. It _should_ work, and I've tested it successfully, but
> it'd make me nervous to reply on it. ;-)
>
> > Obviously make sure that your upgrades are up to date (and tested)
> > before doing anything like this.
>
> s/updates/backups/ I presume?

Oops, yes, I meant to make sure the backups are up to date (and are
known to be good).

I have used this technique (leaving home as it is) successfully
several times, but it is all too easy to hit the wrong button (of find
a bug in the installer) when doing major events such as installing, so
one should never assume all will go according to plan.

Colin